Ringworlds confirmed - UFO Sighted

Yup it is Dyson cereal bowl.

Those look awesome! Any way of creating a bowl-shaped arena-planet?

a Nestworld?

Awesome!!

That's totally possible, although you'd have to take care to avoid dipping too far down into the center of the planet. I would try cutting away one hemisphere entirely and putting a deep crater in the remaining portion. You still might run into rendering issues, though - can't really say for sure without testing it.

Yah, don't bother posting in the thread dedicated to showing off new maps or anything.

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/show-off-your-new-custom-symmetrical-maps.66041/

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A transformation matrix is a general concept you can look up online. It encodes translation, rotation, and scale. Considering they have those things separately, it may be to optimize the regular planet building. If that's true, you might be to get it to render 3D rotated, sheared, etc. by using the transform only.

I know my linear algebra , just wasn't sure about the implementation. You're probably right that one set of values is redundant; that makes a lot more sense than all of them interacting in some dubious way.

I don't really have the time right now, but at some point it would be good to test which set of values get loaded when you edit an imported system and precisely when the other set are recomputed.

absolutely incredible

Ohw, the placing tool (the wire frame that shows your build queue) works on polar coordinates!?
On 3:40 in the video, you can clearly see that the factories are placed too tight together, and in fact only every second factory is build later on.

And, yes, this ring planet thingy is mind (and engine) breaking

criz.

I think it deserved it's own thread

It is one of the best things that has come to pa lately or like ever, ofcourse it deserves its own thread! It's like so (AMAZING is what i am trying to say)

Thanks for the help! Do you mind commenting on what the weight and weightHard tags do?

Also, under what circumstances does the biomeColor come into effect? I've tried editing it on craters, but the color is only briefly visible before the crater texture pops in.

Yeah this map was super fun to play on I'm trying to find Guest to make him put it up on system sharing.

At this point I kind of want to remake the map from scratch before publicly releasing it. I've learned a great deal from this thread, and by messing with the .pas files directly I can produce the same effects as before with smoother terrain and much more efficient brush usage. Also, custom metal points are now in, which means I can replace the previous random scattering with more balanced and interesting placement.

The system sharing mod doesn't seem to accept submissions from the PTE, so I'll probably post the .pas file here when I'm done with it. Might host a test game first, I'll give some advance notice if so.

Yay, I saw zaphod's vid of this and immediately went to try it. Not finding it on system sharing was sad

Will definitely try to make it to any test games, although I'm sure you'll have no shortage of willing victims

Starting over was a good idea.



I'm interested to see what people make of these tunnels. They could be great for raiding if used right; of course, people could also just park their coms down there and be completely safe from nukes, bombers and orbital attacks, which is a bit cheesy.

Can yo make systems with one or two planets for those of us who are RAM-deprived?