Crusader Alpha, on Jun 22 2005, 02:06 PM, said:
What if I was to use a singular spob and put it in every system, then place a planetary ship over it? I know that the spob would not be visible and would be unlandable, but if it was covered up by the image of the ship...
I thought of that. Unfortunately, it must be one of the four Nav Defaults, which reduces you to three for all of your other planets. Also, all of the AI ships would try to land on the planet under the star, making it appear as though they're flying throgh it. On top of this, all of the planets and ships in Nova are lit from the same direction, as though the star is in that directions - thus even though you can't see the star, you can tell it's there.
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Anyway, would that work or would it mess up the game and cause strange things to happen?
Strange Things would happen at the very least - PC Nova is really quite touchy about little errors, and this multiple-systems-spöb thing may even cause the game to choke up completely.
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Any other ideas are still appreciated.
You've still got the fallback idea of using a separate spöb for the sun for each system. They can all use the same image resource, so it won't make the plugin much larger, and even if you have a thousand systems (and hence a thousand stars) that still leaves you with another thousand assorted other stellar objects to work with.