SDK Question Creating Custom Planet Rings

[Trekkie]

Hi Everyone,

i was wondering if there is a trick/Tool for creating Planet Rings, i have read some Threads that has some explaination about it but i decided to make a dedicated thread for it.
would be great if someone could help out!

Thanks!

 

[kuddel]

Something like this?




For adding a ring to a planet you have to do 2 things:

1. Add "Ring configuration parameter to the planets config (Config/Planet.cfg)
   

   ; === Ring Parameters ===
   RingMinRadius = 1.278 ; inner ring radius in units of planet radius
   RingMaxRadius = 2.407 ; outer ring radius

2. Provide ring textures
   Textures/Planet_ring.tex for 'regular' Orbiter[1],
   Textures/Planet_ring_2048.dds, Textures/Planet_ring_4096.dds and Textures/Planet_ring_8192.dds for D3D9Client

Note, that I've only tested this for Orbiter 2016.
The ring is always at the equator, which seems plausible I guess

[1] it seems that the 'regular' Orbiter does render the rings in black and the shadow. What is missing to render the ring-texture is unknown to me

 

[kuddel]

...and it looks like D3D9Client does render the rings, but not the shadow :/
Might be updated (low priority I assume).