i think it only alows five

you can add more by editing the map file but once you do the map editor will not open it or at least that was so before the final release of TA!!

Nasty

Something like this...



Note the time it took me, less than 45 minutes!

That includes...

- Randomize all in a Map editing session. Putting in a custom system & its neighboring two "fake blues". (Which were Purple on the original file, some glitch from Twilight possibly!) All within parameters enforced by the engine; example.... Same sector for any system & its planets, 5 maximum, etc.

- Give a few systems to temporary races while not forgetting Florin to Custom Race.

- Firing up Twilight, making a few scouts to light up the fog.

- Snapping the shot, uploading to ImageShack.

The only remaining work to allow for this kinda stuff would be to change the "intruding Blue Stars" textures by creating a fake temporary blackened texture for the default file (found in the DL folder), integrating it into a MOD location, activate it & starting a game with your new map.

12 Colonies of men -- at your fingertips.

the custom map above work in DA but not TA now GOFIG i`ll have to look to see way it stop working n TA.



you mean like this ???



http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4125/nosun01pd5.jpg

no if I could just remember how the H#ll I manges this !!!

Nasty

wow i did not you now you can do that.

Yep, the Ashen star (in your TA snapshot) is possibly built off a black texture.
Still is a selectable tile, but who cares... the illusion does exactly what it's meant for.

Love the blackened texture. It would make it possible to have rogue planet.

I like it .

thanks I think!!....    Like most your description
and stuff!!! AH!!! what you just say!!! I don`t understand it!!!

the techno Jargon of it all I don`t know I just play with the map till I see something I like !!!!

I know this post show how Dum I am

Nasty

btw, in post #6 above - i'd have a question if you don't mind;

- The purplelish ring is tied with Planet *0.7 WKS* in the middle, or what?

Cuz, that orbital value would need to be a LOT bigger than the default "maximum" as it is described by SD's staff.

ERR Darn Edit Button !!!!


Ring INFO

XOrbitX999X/OrbitX

Change X the Arrows,... Lesser and Greater

Nasty

Before i forget, too.

Ya know Cordelia & Vizzard stars in post #5... well, i gave 'hem the low value treatment by assigning 1 for size - and i can happily say that when my game is zoomed @3, i get to look at two tiny-biddy-willy red DOTS that blend right in the galactic background as if they were *strange space phenomemons* with a name (since, i already tried a space for it and the game crashed on me) !!

Although, Yellow Stars from the Editor are Green when displayed ingame, Red are Yellows, etc. Must be a code glitch -- to be fixed by SD.

Please give more INFO on what you mean or are after here???

OK here we go you`ll see sol in the middle with 5 planets!!

the star systems left and right of it both has more then 8 planets assign to them so they do not show !!



so if I tell the map that there is XX planets and 1 star and assign 5 planets to the home star that will show and assign XX planets that are left to another star name it may do the same as i have on the map !!!



another thing if i make a planet size smaller then 5 it does not show up on the map so i wonder if i make planet size 1 with a moon would it rotate around it even tho it looks like it is not there ??? I`ll try it