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I can remember whose topic it was but someone wanted to know how to add asteroids to a land map. Well so did I so I played and came up with this which does insert the asteroids. First copy all the ODF MSH and effects files of the asteroids you want to the appropriate directories then add this line to your mission luas in the scripts directory.
Just add the bits under asteroids


SetMemoryPoolSize("UnitAgent", 23)
SetMemoryPoolSize("UnitController", 23)
SetMemoryPoolSize("Weapon", weaponCnt)

-- asteroids
local kNumAstLrg = 80
SetMemoryPoolSize("Asteroid", kNumAstLrg)
SetMemoryPoolSize("TreeGridStack", 250)--kNumAstLrg*2.75)

SetParticleLODBias(15000)
SetSpawnDelay(10.0, 0.25)
ReadDataFile("dc:DS4\\DS4.lvl", "DS4_eli")
SetDenseEnvironment("false")




-- Sound Stats

ScriptCB_EnableHeroMusic(0)
ScriptCB_EnableHeroVO(0)


Here is the proof

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Enjoy

Whoa! what sky is that? polis massa?

ONTOPIC: thanks i couldn't figure out the asteroids...
OFFTOPIC:I LOVE that sky it would fit my map so well, what is it

yes it is Polis Masa sky file.
as a side note (just in case you don't like them) in the sky file if you comment out the roids line you get just
rotating stars

thanks again...

Problem, they don't show up... Is this right?
-thanks

It looks okay, one thing I did forget to mention, slaps himself , is that I put the asteroids in manually
buy copying the assests to ODF and MSH folders. There are some in polis masa assets but they don't have collision.
To get the other ones I created a space map which then allows you to get the ones as shown in the pictures above.
These do have collison and are destructable (remember to copy the fx files too to see the dust particles) There may be
a way to populate an area without placing them yourself but as of yet I haven't found it. It may have something to do with the
lower lines in the pasted part of the common lua from the space scripts

-- asteroids
local kNumAstLrg = 80
SetMemoryPoolSize("Asteroid", kNumAstLrg)
SetMemoryPoolSize("TreeGridStack", 250)--kNumAstLrg*2.75)

SetSpawnDelay(10.0, 0.25)

-- do any pool allocations, custom loading here
if myScriptInit then
myScriptInit()
myScriptInit = nil
end

ReadDataFile("dc:SMT\\spa_sky.lvl", "end")

ReadDataFile("dc:SMT\\SMT.lvl", myGameMode)

SetDenseEnvironment("false")

SetParticleLODBias(15000)

FillAsteroidRegion("Ast_02", "spa_prop_jagged_asteroid_large", kNumAstLrg, 3.0,1.0,1.0, 0.0,-1.0,-1.0);

Hope this helps more

Cheers

Off-topic : Wow, that Sky-texture is amazing. I should use it in a map...

- Linus

They still don't show up in game, If you don't mind, can you take the above lua and insert it into the right area or am I missing something?

Okay I figured it out, had to hit both myself and the computer with a stick but after playing
for about two hours and numerous cups of coffee here's what's up. I tried putting them into
a different map and they didn't show up either and I went Oh Crap I lead some astray. What
it all comes down to is...
the line SetMemoryPoolSize("Asteroid", kNumAstLrg) is all you need as matter of fact you can just put in 80
instead of the kNumAstLrg as it is just a variable the thing is it HAS to be right up with the other SetMemoryPoolSize
lines so right after the last one should work. The kNum things is for populating the map for Felucia and if you
look at the lua and also the paths in ZE for Polis Masa they actually have lines in there for asteroid paths although I don't
think they got it working as it is commented out.

I appologise if I gave eroneous information at first but what I have mentioned in this reply should work (knocks on wood)
a hopfully you have a sky full of asteroids.

Cheers

thanks..