Elliptical orbits!

I just got one in an autogenerated system! I'll get a screenshot up in a sec.

Edit: I'm not well equipped for this stuff, print screen just give me a black screen. Anyone can do us a favour and confirm?

Edit 2: Proof, sorry for the quality, I'm tired and lazy.

Actually those were possible on pre-made planet for a while, but cool that it's finally landed into auto generated systems..

Elliptical orbits have been in the system designer for a while, I've created some by mistake. I don't play many auto-generated systems though, so I don't know if they're new there.

I thought that they didn't work?

Go out of fullscreen mode, print screen doesn't work on fullscreen for some reason.

Try "Print Screen" several times. Usually the first one is black, and the following ones are OK.

This was my last notice on this as well. THE FACT THAT THEY WORK is very useful. Now we just need 0 radius planets to exist to use as a center point of gravity for binary planets and such, and we would have a very useful system designing tool.

I thought we could save elliptical orbits in system editor, but loading them up to play always resulted in a circular orbit.

If you use steam use F12 to take screens.

Disabling full-screen should fix this as well.

I play PTE on the uber launcher unfortunately. I'll get one up in a sec.

While elliptical orbits are cool, I still wish we could have orbiting on the z axis

Few things orbit on the Z axis. The only thing in the solar system that does it, was created by a planet capturing a body from another celestial collision.

Which is that.....Memory is foggy today

The rings of Uranus? They're on Uranus's z-axis, at least.

How technical do you want to get? for all intents and purposes, the solar system is very flat.

One of the reasons why Pluto is not considered a planet is because it doesn't have a flat orbit. PA features all kind of planets, moons, asteroids (soon ) etc. So I don't see anything wrong with any kind of Z orbiting systems.

Here is the reason why space is so flat in general

besides. How not flat is it? One would think it flat from a quick glance. Turn the angle to double check. Well, it is off marginally, maybe a few degrees from dead flat?

Uranus has a moon orbiting closer to 90 than 0, one planet does at least.

game design. Would a third axis contribute more than it removes? Removes simple overhead vision, adds... Posibility to look cool, removes general realism...