[HOWTO] Change appearance of stars

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[HOWTO] Change appearance of stars

Post by vukica » Sun, 15. Dec 13, 12:37

My question is simple. How to change apperance and size of suns in game?

I've played around with Lensflares.pck/txt but no matter what i do, the sun remains the same size. Changes regarding apperance do seem to work.
So where do you change the size of the solar disc? I'm working on a more astronomicaly correct mod so I really need to have different star sizes available.

[ashamed]I've seen more than one mod that has this feature but I can't reverse engineer the changes.[/ashamed] what am i missing?

p.s. i've figured out how tsuns file works.
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Post by Guest » Sun, 15. Dec 13, 15:33

... i would put the sun further away from the centre of the sector (using the galaxy editor [rename playername to "Makeanapplepiefromscratch"])

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Post by vukica » Sun, 15. Dec 13, 15:49

size of the solar disc does not depend on distance.

suns in x3 are 2d objects.

changing distance only changes the position of the light source, not the sun itself.
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