[REQUEST/HELP] Asteroid : Yields, Silicon and Spin

[Moonrat]

Making good progress on the next version of my Encounters mod but I have a question relating to asteroids.

I can create an asteroid OK (via "create_object"), it's position and set it's "damage", pitch/yaw/roll as well, but was wondering if anyone knows the following...

• How do I create a silicon asteroid, there doesn't appear to be a macro for this type ?
  How do I set the yield ?
  How do I make it spin ?

[h2odragon3]

I think your questions may be answered in `libraries/region_definitions.xml`. Dunno if you can set spin with create_object. I think the 'ore' asteroid macros are also used for silicon, in region_definitions there's several places like this:

asteroid ref="env_ast_ore_xl_02_macro" lodrule="asteroidxl" densityfactor="0.04" rotation="360" rotationvariation="4" resources="silicon" resourcepercentage="100" yield="432" yieldvariation="0.32" replenishtime="150000" noisescale="50000" seed="42" minnoisevalue="0.75" maxnoisevalue="0.8"/

[Moonrat]

Yes I agree. I also think the "ore" asteroid macros are used for Silicon but I'm not sure how you convert them using something like "create_object". I also noticed the "rotation" in xml's such as the one quoted but these appear to be configuration type definitions for regions of space rather than individual objects?