Huge void rivers should be biomes of their own, wonder how'd it work?

extreme horror
amazing mod
please don't burn down my pc

Sorry for the chain posting, but I'm currently working on a realistic star distribution mod for TrueSpace/RealSpace, where the frequencies at which stars appear mimics real-life star distribution, with red stars being the most common, and blue stars being the least common. I was wondering a few things:

1. Could star placement in arrays be used to group hotter, rarer stars together into so-called stellar nurseries (whether inside star clusters or within galactic arms)?

2. Could changing various settings within "/systemTypePerlin" affect the noisiness of star placement to the point where more common stars, especially red stars, be found everywhere, even inside of said stellar nurseries?

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If anyone's curious as to what "/systemTypePerlin" and "/systemTypeBins" look like within "celestial.config", after applying Frackin' Universe's patches, they look like this:

"systemTypePerlin" : { //Frackin' Universe changes nothing here
"type" : "perlin",
"octaves" : 1,
"frequency" : 0.01,
"amplitude" : 1.0,
"bias" : 0.0
},
"systemTypeBins" : [
[-1.00, "White"],
[-0.35, "Orange"], //adjusted by FU from -0.30
[-0.20, "Yellow"], //adjusted by FU from -0.12
[0.00, "Blue"],
[0.12, "Red"],
[0.30, ""], //"dark mysteries", as vanilla Starbound calls this array index
[-0.1, "bluesun1"],
[-0.05, "redsun1"],
[0.05, "binary1"],
[0.22, "dying1"],
[0.25, "blacksun1"]
],

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- Some odd star classes might occasionally be found within these star bands (such as those green stars at the top left, cloistered within those bands of orange and yellow stars). My guess is that it's because of noise, perhaps created as a result of "/systemTypePerlin", though I might also be mistaken.

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- As the star distribution goes from the top of the array to the bottom of the array, numerous bands of star classes can be noticed, such as orange eccentric stars being next to white gentle stars, followed by yellow radioactive stars, blue frozen stars, red fiery stars, then Frackin' Universe's stars follow afterwards (since they were all added towards the bottom of the array).
-- This might alternatively be explained as the game sorting star distributions from lowest value to highest value instead of array order. The band of grayish stars between the dark blue and bright red bands may be FU's "binary1" systems in-between vanilla's "Blue" and "Red" bands.

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Assuming that no mods were installed that changes "/systemTypePerlin" from "celestial.config" outside of vanilla Starbound values, I can make a few observations judging from the screenshot available:

- White gentle stars tend to clump together into star clusters full of nothing but those stars. This may be because they're at the top of the "/systemTypeBins" array, much like how those "dark mysteries" are at the bottom of said array (and may have been responsible for the river of empty space shown in the screenshot).
-- Alternatively, this may be because white stars were assigned a value of -1.0, while the next class down, orange stars, were assigned a value of -0.35, which seems like a big jump, and might explain the white star cluster on the left side of the screenshot. As for the "dark mysteries", they were assigned a value of 0.30, and no other values are present in other array indexes.

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omg i thought 10x is crazy enough

make 1000x so i can crash my computer

pretty colors, lemme install this

I'd like to see the person who has a computer that can run this perfectly at full FPS

how to check if a game has potato optimization:
step 1: install a mod that adds a lot of stuff

TIP: theres a bookmark feature

Do you think only those with the strongest setups should use this?

The stars aren't using .gifs -- Starbound uses .png spritesheets for its animations -- but that is essentially the reason for all the lag, yeah. It's certainly possible for someone to make a mod that would remove the animation and stop the interface from redrawing the stars all the time.

It should be noted, though, that removing the animation won't fix any lag caused by initially loading the stars or from panning the starmap.

@RobotLucca RobotLucca

I think you can significantly increase the star count IF you replace star's .gif animation and just make it a .jpg for each star. I think removing the gif/animation from these star would significantly remove lag and make a larger galaxy more playable.

This may lag.

intentional 2001: A Space Odyssey reference, yes

Was that reference in the title and description intentional or just coincidental?

1, or 333.33x more stars, is the actual maximum here, as it's the % chance of a star generating in any given coordinate. Going from this to that, you'd get 3.33x more lag, and even I don't want to subject people's computers (or my own) to that much.

This still does not remove the "void" areas, though - they're an area of the noise function designated not to have stars. You'd need a separate mod if you wanted to patch those out, for whatever reason.

Nah just set it to 3. It'll be 1000x more stars haha

Death happens.

what happens if u set the thingy to 1

Sounds neat.

Those are actually a neat result of Starbound's Perlin noise distribution - with a star density this high, it becomes easy to see the "bands" of stars, revealing the noise heightmap. This is why stars of the same type tend to clump together!

i really like the idea of Void rivers in between stars.

more

Koo-Cherry-999 delete your universe folder after disinstalling the mod

Now I wish for a mod that decreases the chances of all the other planets while increasing the chances of a barren planet.

help me i fucking bricked my game

is there a way to add just ONE star system at a specific set of coordinates? (namely 0,0)

just because you can doesn't mean you should...

BY the POPE! THERE'S TOO MANY!

s t a r p l a t i m u n

closest representation of real life space, although real life space doesn't have so many habitable planets

pointless is below

yeet [ post and copy to yeet the world ]

Art... Beautiful .

when I use this mod I dont arive at any stars in the begining, as well as there not being any stars on the star chart

this mod is funny because of how seemingly pointless it is because the Amount of Stars in the game is already pretty large and the EXTREME LAG WARNING May drive people away from this mod

i cant move my cursor

Change the value from 0.3 to 3 next.

Like axis of evil in real universe)

I don't have the mod, but I think that's just because it has to generate all of the stars

can some one confirm if its supose to take a long time when you first start the game?

Luckily I know a few tricks of making starbound Run even if it doesn't want, but anyways the FU will intensify and also finally the Irradiated is not rare

it also makes it look like a slideshow, enjoy

This mod makes the game look like if we were in a actual Space where there are lot of stars

we need moar

What if you made a x1000000 star mod?