Aldrin big rock

[willyshop]

Does anybody know the location of the exact center of the Aldrin big rock? I'd like to drop a bunch of satellites in a ring around it, and ideally I'd like them to be well centered and evenly distributed.
I was thinking about writing a program to take the average of all the asteroid positions, but that's an awful lot of work for something so unnecessary.

[jlehtone]

You should visit the S&M Forum. They should know the 'get position of object' methods.

[willyshop]

Thanks, good call. I ended up doing it for myself in the script editor. For some reason that never occurred to me. Instead of worrying about the big rock I just took the average position of all the asteroids, and then calculated the average distance of all the asteroids from that point.

I got the center at -122396,823,55527 and an average distance of 177428m. Your results will vary; I've build on a few of the rocks so those aren't included in the average.

Now, going back to my vanilla save and putting all those satellites in manually is going to be interesting.


[edit] Yeah, I'm an idiot. I made the assumption that the asteroids in Aldrin are evenly distributed around the center of the big rock. THey aren't. I think I'm just going to make an educated guess, since the rock doesn't seam to be accessible by the scripts.

[another edit] I give up. Even if I place my satellite nicely, collision detection goes into effect as soon as I enter the sector and kicks a bunch of them out of place. Looks like my plans for an Aldrin surveillance network are doomed to failure.