Stars?

[Myrddraal]

Looking through text files, I found this:


Looking around in the files I found this:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;
;; solar system bodies and other cosmic entities
;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

body sun
{
body earth
{
body moon
{
}
}
}

distant
{
;bearing elevation
global_offset 90 22

stars
{
; bearing elevation size colour

; pole star
0 0 1.0

; ursa minor - the little bear (includes the pole star)
219 16 0.5
225 19 0.5
231 12 0.4
241 15 0.4
250 8 0.4
270 5 0.4

; ursa major - the great bear (the plough or, more recently, the saucepan)
163 28 0.8
163 34 0.8
175 34 0.8
180 32 0.6
191 33 0.8
200 34 0.8
203 40 0.8

; cassiopeia
0 31 0.8
6 35 0.8
12 30 0.8
20 31 0.6
22 28 0.6

; draco
208 27 0.5
225 31 0.8
241 28 0.5
257 25 0.5
261 38 0.6
261 34 0.4
267 38 0.7
267 33 0.5
276 18 0.5
288 24 0.4
289 27 0.5

; pegasus
343 76 0.7
344 62 0.8
0 62 0.8
1 75 0.8
7 56 0.6
14 53 0.7
25 47 0.6

; orion - the hunter


;number bearing range elevation range size range
random 500 0 360 0 120 0.1 0.3
}

nebula
{
}

galaxies
{
}
}


If I may ask, what were CA planning with these???

[Encaitar]

I presume it's so that in night-time battles you can actually see real constellations and stars if you look up at the sky. I haven't looked to see if it's actually there or not though.

[Red Harvest]

I haven't tested this in the full game, but I did test it a few dozen times or so in the demo. The game has some sort of rudimentary planetarium display. I changed times and dates in the demo files and watched the constellations change appropriately, as well as phases of the moon. It is a nice touch. Sadly, night battles are absent from the full game so we don't get to see this work in action.

[Silver Rusher]

I haven't tested this in the full game, but I did test it a few dozen times or so in the demo. The game has some sort of rudimentary planetarium display. I changed times and dates in the demo files and watched the constellations change appropriately, as well as phases of the moon. It is a nice touch. Sadly, night battles are absent from the full game so we don't get to see this work in action.
What are you talking about? There are night battles in the full game.

[Myrddraal]

He means in campaign, you never fight night battles.

[Red Harvest]

Right, I haven't played any night battles in the hundreds I've played. I haven't experimented with it in custom. My experience with it is limited to setting dates and times for battles in the demo. It it is not in the SP campaign, then the effect is wasted.