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[digdug]

I just tried to use a spaceenviromenttype as a stargate instead of a station, and it doesn't work.

Any idea how can I make a wide area stargate (i mean gating with G) without making a 1000000x1000000 pixels station ?

[schilcote]

spaceenviromenttype

What?

[digdug]

schilcote Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:39 pm

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digdug wrote:

spaceenviromenttype

What?

It's the xml element used to make nebulae in the game.
I tried to use it to create a wide area that could work as a stargate, unfortunately it doesn't work.

[Arisaya]

But a big station works? (good new for me... needed a 256x256 stargate-able area)

Hmmm... but itsn't space environement thingy just a single repeated image or set of tiling image variants or something?
so couldn't you just make a ton of 'stations' and a bit more manually place them?

[Darth Saber]

Digdug, back in the day of version 98.d, there was a vanilla mod, which I believe may have had to do with mapping or some such thing; anyhow, on the long range scanner it showed stargates which were not visible to the naked eye. I cannot remember if I could gate through or not, however my idea is thus: create a large station graphic for the stargate which looks like the space background in Transcendence, with a regular stargate in the middle; as the nebulae is but a background with a variant nebulae layered on top (see the 99.c resources mod), so also would you have a space background with a stargate layered on top of it. In this way, you would essentially have the large gateable space you desired, although the work involved would consume some time in its execution.