Planet Meshes

[Dr Pepper]

Hi all, just a question:

Just how do you go about making a mesh for a planet (for example, like with the [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3364"]2003 EL61[/ame] add on), instead of always having spherical planets? Just something that I've been wanting to do for a while, but could never figure out how.

Thanks!

 

[Quick_Nick]

I'm pretty sure one way is to make a mesh how you want it, then set that planet's Max Resolution to 0.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Thanks for the quick reply. Could you be a little more specific? Does the mesh file need to be placed in a special folder? Does the mesh file name need to be something special, too?

 

[Quick_Nick]

Thanks for the quick reply. Could you be a little more specific? Does the mesh file need to be placed in a special folder? Does the mesh file name need to be something special, too?

Just give the mesh the same name as the name in the cfg file and place it in the normal Meshes folder. Just take a look at Phobos.msh and Phobos.cfg for an example.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Thanks a million! :thumbup: