Invisible Black Hole
Hi, just wanted to ask if there is a reason why Black Holes cant be seen on the main screen, and if there is a way to fix that.
-UselessJerry
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I wanted to "warp" space around it, but I never managed to do that (especially complex when there is more then 1 black hole within visible range)
As actual black holes are not visible directly, but only because they bend space/time.
it can be sometimes a bit confusing when you sudenly die because of something literally invisible :P
but still thx for the reply
But of course, EE is not really science-heavy: dense nebulas/asteroid fields, no space-flight-physics, and of course being on a 2d plane ;-)
So a rough estimate should be good enough.
Question: how difficult would it be to show some objects as plain sprites instead of 3d models? A black disc with some generic, blurry, half-transparent star-rings around it might do the trick.
I just made some quick tests in gimp using an EE screenshot, and at least on that static image it does'nt look too bad. But of course in motion that could be different.
btw.: My idea was inspired by http://www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de/reiseziel/reiseziel1.html (in german, but at least the images might be interesting for non-german readers nevertheless)
Its just that its like not existing. No bend light, no consumed star, not even just black and that was my actual issue
(Sidenote: maybe the examples would look more natural with immovable planets,slower moon rotation and the sun being part of the skybox?)
I played with the example script a bit, unfortunately it seems you cant just replace the star with a black hole picture, as the atmosphere texture is used for it, and here the brightness-value also determines the transparency. So the black disc a the center is not visible, only the outside ring - which works at least from the distance. On the other hand, setting the planet's texture to black looks already quite interesting.
Unfortunately, combining both don't work, but it's good enough to do some further testing/image composing. I guess I will post some pictures within the next days (And maybe also a ticket on github for organization purposes)
From left to right: based on painting with a star-like-brush, simple black planet, based on the EE StarsFront File.
As mentioned above, the transparency dont work as I wanted too, ideally the center should be completly black.