Changing Mars and Earth Atmosphere

Hi Alex,

All information on how to change sky effects can be found under help and Uniview Runtime Command Syntax... under Effects/PlanetFX/Atmosphere

You can tweak quite a few aspects of the atmospheres. Is there a particular effect you are trying to get?

Hi Greg,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I'm trying to change to colour and the 'thickness' (in terms of opacity, not physical height)


Alex

Had a good look through the booklet and can't seem to spot the one for colour or thickness.


Could be me being thick and missing something though... (i'd never rule that out!)

Cheers

Alex


WSC

First of all, I think what you'll most likely be interested in from the documentation are these commands (here with default values for Mars):

mars.planetfx atmosphere betaR 1.0e-005 1.0e-005 0.9e-005
mars.planetfx atmosphere mieAmount 1.8

There are also a few more properties not defined by the documentation, but which you will find if you start poking around in the .pfx file for a planet. If you're making your own module based off of the standard Mars module, there are two parameters in the data\mars.pfx called massCentreRayleigh and mieColor that you could tweak as well. You can also get to these in the same way as the documented parameters above:

mars.planetfx atmosphere massCentreRayleigh 0.330
mars.planetfx atmosphere mieColor 1.23 0.854 0.654

Please remember that you should never ever change any values directly in the standard module files - it will likely break future patches. If you want to change them, make a copy in your custom modules folder and edit that instead.

Many thanks for this - this is exactly what i was after!

And i am creating a whole new custom module called 'mars oceans' so i can swap between them during a show :-)

Many thanks

Alex

Hi there,

I know it was a while since i was asking about this (had to develop a new show in the mean time) but now i'm back trying to sort my habitable mars out...

And i can;t do anything with  the .pfx file in mars/data - nothing i have will deal with it as an extension.

Any ideas?

Many thanks


Alex

It is just an ascii text file, open it with Notepad/Wordpad or something like Sublime or Notepad++. Any text editor will work!

well now i feel silly - my pc just didn't pick it is a an extension it wanted to deal with but now i've persuaded it that i really can open them, and use this program it had reluctantly accepted.

many thanks


Alex