Defining the 'gate-zone' of a stargate

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Arisaya
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Can this be manually defined, or must all star-gates be set to 128x128 images to look properly?

Can custom gate effects be used as well?
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I was planning to use a spaceEnviromentType, register it with objRegisterForSystemEvents and make an entire portion of the system to automatically gate the playership when entered :shock:
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think that would work for a region about 256 pixels across?
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well, for a spaceenviromentype the minimum size would be 512x512
but I still haven't tried it, it's one of the features of the battlestar galactica mod i'm planning... :/
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I just did some tests and you can change the stargate image to anything (I tested a nebula and rsShipInterior at 600x400) however, the gate zone seems to be hard coded.

The only way around it would be to have an event auto-gate the player like digdug suggested.
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Or spawn multiple gates, most of them invisible (or 1px black stations). Then place one graphic in the midst of that and you have your larger gate zone...
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I'd love to see an example of a gate-on-approach type scheme.

I'm thinking of revamping the one-star multi-system idea.
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