[TML] The Making of SolarCreations
Knapp
magick.crow at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 11:15:09 MST 2008
I started working on the program to make solar systems and suns.
The first problem I ran into is What is the correct probability of the
stars and their features?
My format is easy to use.
['A',1],['F',3],['G',8],['K',14],['White Dwarf',10],['M',49],['Brown
Dwarf',13],['Giant',1],['Special',1]
Might look a little crazy but it is easy.
Type A star 1 percent is ['A', 1.0]
You can have as many types as you like. That one on the end "Special"
is a pain and should be replaced by a bunch of stuff at small
percentages.
The only limit is that the full list must add up to 100. You can use
numbers like 0.01 also, the precision is set to this but can be
changed with ease.
What would you experts out there choose for the right settings and
numbers? The one in the example is from Worldgen.pdf
Same question goes for all the stuff needed to make a solar system. I
am just using straight Worldgen numbers now.
It would also be very easy to use this program to make up and thing
that made with lists of percentages. They could also be put in a text
file in groups to make up complex anythings.
Thanks.
Douglas E Knapp
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