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Adding MegaStructures to every star system...
Hello Everyone, I'm looking for the easiest way to add three megastructures equidistant apart, always 300,000,000 miles from the star. I could add them at the DB level, but they would not get the GUID assigned like the existing ones that I have added manually. Any thoughts out there?
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Hello Ed, any thoughts on this one?
Maybe put them in the same orbit at 3 different points along the orbit (use time past periapsis for positioning along orbit)
That is what I have been doing. Problem is that it is very time-consuming to add each of these manually. That is adding three megastructures per star system with 2756 Stars currently on the map. Each addition also means calculating the past periapsis so that they are equidistant from each other. Yes, this works, but I was hoping to get this project done before I die of old age, and I am already in my 60's. :-p
Was just looking for a way to automate this process. I like automation. I'm lazy. :-)
You could certainly write a script for it to add them in bulk. To get them relatively equadistant take the orbital time and divide it by 3. ie, if its a 300 day orbital period, make one at 0, one at 100, and one at 200. But they are elliptical orbits so the exact distance would vary over time.
I'm working on a script for that now. I was planning on putting them in a perfectly circular orbit. They are artificial in nature, so why have an eliptical orbit? I am going to try and avoid thinking about gravitational perturbations, whether than are mutual or n-body types. Although that would be a fun mental exercise, it really would not add to the storyline I am trying to build. ;-)
Yep, just set the eccentricity to 0 and it will be circular. Let me know if you have any q's.