Moon problems (orbiting ones)

Moooooooons!

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Sooooooooo...... I was trying to add moons that orbit around planets to my mod, it worked, but I'd like to have it to orbit the planet itself and I can't seen to find any other setting in the AsteroidDef.AsteroidDef file which is for movement (except the speed). I'm guessing it is a .mesh thing? 

I'd like it to orbit just outside the gravity well of the planet, so there won't be any collisions with ships moving in the GW:D

Any help or tips would be awesome!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

the engine does not support orbital movement, at least no mod in the last four+ years has done it, and some of the mods did add moons in place of the mining asteriods/starbases.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah I've seen mods (like RealSins) have moons that "orbit", or atleast mimic orbit. I've copied the mesh from the mod and swapped it with my mesh to check it out and it did move in circles/ovals, while mine did not, with the exact same AsteroidDef properties.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Novus Universum is probably as close as you will get to real, non interactable, moons.