Biomes help

[MortemLuna]

Hi! I've been trying to make a mod which adds biomes to other bodies, but starting with the mun. now, I already know the mun has biomes, but you can only perform science on the surface for it to be biome-specific. I'm trying to make science experiments biome-specific from low orbit around those bodies. I just don't know how...

[BudgetHedgehog]

I'm trying to make science experiments biome-specific from low orbit around those bodies. I just don't know how...

You'll want a situaution/biome mask for that:

SituationMask & biomeMask are bitmasks defining where the part can do science.

SituationMask determines in which of the following conditions science can be gathered:

SrfLanded = 1 SrfSplashed = 2, FlyingLow = 4, FlyingHigh = 8, InSpaceLow = 16, InSpaceHigh = 32

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[TH]InSpaceHigh = 32[/TH]

[TH]InSpaceLow = 16[/TH]

[TH] FlyingHigh = 8[/TH]

[TH]FlyingLow = 4[/TH]

[TH]SrfSplashed = 2[/TH]

[TH]SrfLanded = 1[/TH]

[TH]Binary[/TH]

[TH]Decimal[/TH]

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[TR]

[TD]Option with everything selected:[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]111111[/TD]

[TD]63[/TD]

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[TD]Option with only FlyingLow selected:[/TD]

[TD]0[/TD]

[TD]0[/TD]

[TD]0[/TD]

[TD]1[/TD]

[TD]0[/TD]

[TD]0[/TD]

[TD]000100[/TD]

[TD]4[/TD]

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The number you need to input is a decimal conversion of binary yes/no selection.

So you grab the number you've gotten by filling out the options above and run it through a binary converter like this one: http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/binary-to-decimal-converter

BiomeMask works in a similar way but determines when biomes play a part in your science gathering.

Think of it as you are filling the list out again, 111111 or 63 is always. 000100 or 4 is only when flying low.

This allows your ground poking instrument to care about if you are in the desert or not while letting a deepspace radiowavesomethingorother not bother checking what it happens to be above.]

Don't forget to add ScienceDefs for these new places as well or they won't be runnable. Though if you're planning on making a certain experiment only work over a certain biome (say, the Poles), I don't think it's possible. It's either all biomes or none, though I'd be happy to be corrected.