[1.0.5] Sigma: OPM Tilt

[Sigma88]

1 minute ago, Geschosskopf said:

OPMTilt seems to work just fine in 1.1.2 with OPM 2.0.  At least, Urlum and all its moons and rings are sideways, and show up in the tracking center, and I can interact with them with ships.

I do have one problem, however.  OPM comes with a CustomAsteroids config which adds asteroid moonlets to Jool and all the OPM planets.  This file gives Urlum 2 sets of moonlets, one in the rings and a more distant cloud of captured asteroids out beyond Wal.  The outer group works fine, but I can't make ring moonlets incline to match tilted Urlum.  No matter what I do, the ring moonlets remain in the ecliptic plane 90^ to Urlum's rings.

Here's the applicable part of the OPM_CustomAsteroids.cfg file (unmodified):

	ASTEROIDGROUP
	{
		name = urlumRingMoonlets
		title = Urlum

		centralBody = Urlum

		spawnRate = 0.0125

		orbitSize
		{
			type = SemimajorAxis
			min = Ratio(Urlum.rad, 2.3)
			max = Ratio(Urlum.rad, 2.9)
		}

		eccentricity
		{
			avg = 0.0001
		}

		inclination
		{
			avg = 0.5
		}
	}

 

And here's what I tried to fix it:

@CustomAsteroids:NEEDS[SigmaOPMTilt]:AFTER[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@ASTEROIDGROUP[urlumRingMoonlets]
	{
		@inclination
		{
			min = 89
			max = 90
		}
	}
}

 

NOTE:  I managed a similar MM patch to make the Plock moonlets orbit Plock-Karen if you have SigmaBinary installed, so I'm kinda at a loss here.

 

maybe you need to delete the avg key

like this:

@CustomAsteroids:NEEDS[SigmaOPMTilt]:AFTER[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@ASTEROIDGROUP[urlumRingMoonlets]
	{
		@inclination
		{
			min = 89
			max = 90
			!avg = DEL
		}
	}
}

but I don't know anything about Custom Asteroids

[Geschosskopf]

1 hour ago, Sigma88 said:

maybe you need to delete the avg key

Well, that didn't work, either.  So then I edited the OPM_CustomAsteroids.cfg directly, changing the inclination to min/max 89/90.  And THAT didn't work.  Still, the moonlets were in the ecliptic plane.  I'm beginning to think you seriously warped space at Urlum

 

[Sigma88]

1 minute ago, Geschosskopf said:

Well, that didn't work, either.  So then I edited the OPM_CustomAsteroids.cfg directly, changing the inclination to min/max 89/90.  And THAT didn't work.  Still, the moonlets were in the ecliptic plane.  I'm beginning to think you seriously warped space at Urlum

 

maybe custom asteroids doesn't change inclination that way, you need to ask the devs of that mod

[cantab]

Random suggestion: try not using 90? Instead make it like 85 to 89. An exact 90 degree orbit is "special" in a sense (it's not defined whether it's prograde or retrograde).

Another possibility, unlikely but maybe worth trying? is that it's taking inclination in radians.

Edited June 2, 2016 by cantab

[Sigma88]

1 hour ago, cantab said:

Random suggestion: try not using 90? Instead make it like 85 to 89. An exact 90 degree orbit is "special" in a sense (it's not defined whether it's prograde or retrograde).

Another possibility, unlikely but maybe worth trying? is that it's taking inclination in radians.

if inclination was in radians then avg = 0.5 would be ~60 deg

[Adstri]

Very nice mod. Really added a challenge to my Urlum mission . Might I asked how you edited the texture to make the planet appear tilted at 90 degrees?  I could really use that technique for some of my modding projects.

[Sigma88]

11 hours ago, Adstriduum said:

Very nice mod. Really added a challenge to my Urlum mission . Might I asked how you edited the texture to make the planet appear tilted at 90 degrees?  I could really use that technique for some of my modding projects.

I followed the instructions I received on this forum

[Adstri]

Ok, thank you  this is much easier then hand painting it my self.

[Poodmund]

@Sigma88, would there be any possibility that this would be updated for OPM 1.2.1? Wal's terrain and therefore textures changed quite a bit so when this mod is installed, Wall get's reverted back to its older self and with its previous biome map.

I would also considering changing the TiltClouds.cfg to:

@EVE_CLOUDS:FOR[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@OBJECT:HAS[#body[Urlum],#offset[*,*]]
	{
		%offset[0] -= 90
		%offset[1] -= 90
	}
}

As if the default offset it used for a cloud layer that is generated through EVE's GUI, an offset key will not be listed in the config. Does the above change to the config work (changing the @ to % in front of the x and y offset values).

I've added rudimentary support for it back into OPM-VO and its definitely a great addition when playing with OPM.

[Sigma88]

10 minutes ago, Poodmund said:

would there be any possibility that this would be updated for OPM 1.2.1? Wal's terrain and therefore textures changed quite a bit so when this mod is installed, Wall get's reverted back to its older self and with its previous biome map.

I'm not sure how much time I can get to update this, I'll try if I get some time off but I can't promise any ETA sorry

 

11 minutes ago, Poodmund said:

%offset[0] -= 90

you can't subtract 90 from something that doesn't exist so this will not work

 

I'll take a look for that as well when I have time

[Poodmund]

9 minutes ago, Sigma88 said:

you can't subtract 90 from something that doesn't exist so this will not work

Yeah thats the issue.   If the offset = 0,0,0 is used it doesn't generate in the config... so maybe a pass could be done to identify all cloud layers that exist for Urlum that don't have an 'offset' key, and then add an offset key for those with values of 0,0,0. Afterwards, the the existing code can be run.

@EVE_CLOUDS:FOR[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@OBJECT:HAS[#body[Urlum],~#offset[*]]
	{
		offset = 0,0,0
	}
	@OBJECT:HAS[#body[Urlum],#offset[*,*]]
	{
		@offset[0] -= 90
		@offset[1] -= 90
	}
}

My Module-Manager-fu is not strong like yours so what I'm saying is probably a load of tosh.  

As for an ETA, no worries. It still "works" as is... just a bit funky is all.

Edited April 2, 2017 by Poodmund

[Sigma88]

@Poodmund

@EVE_CLOUDS:FOR[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@OBJECT:HAS[#body[Urlum]]
	{
		&offset = 0,0,0
		@offset[0] -= 90
		@offset[1] -= 90
	}
}

this will solve the issue (for the offset thingy)

[MisterFister]

Is this mod still alive?

[Starslinger999]

On 11/11/2017 at 1:38 AM, MisterFister said:

Is this mod still alive?

^

[Errol]

Appears to work for me so far in 1.6.1, though I've only been in 1.6.1 for a few days.

I'm running about 100 or so other mods along with this, but haven't actually started playing a save yet, just slowly adding mods and testing for crashes/bugs right now.

[KawaiiLucy]

Have been trying to get it to work in 1.12.2; the orbits get tilted correctly it seems, however Urlums texture doesn't want to tilt 90°, or is it not supposed to?

Mods: EVE-Redux; Kopernicus, OPM, Rescale (2,5x), scatterer, OPMtilt, SigmaDimensions, Spectra, PoodsOPMVO (both tried with and without).

[Warhorse]

I was able to get this working in 1.12.2 by modifying GameData/Sigma/OPMTilt/Configs/UrlumTilt.cfg to read as follows:

 

@Kopernicus:FOR[SigmaOPMTilt]
{
	@Body[Urlum]
	{
		@Properties
		{
			@description = It took a while for Kerbal astronomers to realize Urlum was not a far away star, but in fact another planet. Since then scientists have been weary of making claims about Urlum, for fear of being wrong yet again. The ice giant is unusual in that it rotates around a very tilted axis making it impossible for astronomers to decide if it's rotating prograde or retrograde.
			@rotationPeriod = 1e100
		}
		@Rings
		{
			@Ring
			{
				@angle = 90
				@lockRotation = false
			}
		}
		@ScaledVersion
		{
			!ProceduralGasGiant {}
			@OnDemand
			{
				@texture = Sigma/OPMTilt/PluginData/Textures/Urlum_color.dds
				@texture:NEEDS[SigmaOPMRecolor] = Sigma/OPMTilt/PluginData/Textures/Urlum_recolor.dds
			}
		}
	}
}

Should you also be using Sigma OPMRecolor, this config will tilt the recoloured Urlum texture, as well.

[Spartan Nat]

Would just like to say this mod still works on 1.12.5 with the added fixes, and to boot I can go in configs and make it a proper 97.77 degree tilt like actual Uranus!