is this compatible with immersive beautiful universe?

yeh i hear you and that is what i used to do to judge if the mod was working i also use real space. so there are plenty of binary and trinary systems i had access to and still then, the planets had the same light / dark proportions

@RECKLE$$ To check if this mod works for you, go to a ternary system (I use Real Space mod) and locate planets in the middle of the 3 stars, then inspect how much of the planet surface is in shadows. Example: I have a system with two white stars at the center, and one small red star in the border, with a planet in the middle. Without this mod, the planet had 50% of the surface in shadows in spite of having stars at both sides. With this mod however the planet has 80% of its surface reflecting light, 50% white and 30% red, and only 20% in shadows, as it should be.

I think this breaks the Toxic Star from The Toxic God Origin. CTD on upon viewing the system,.

wait no way aryxcami from SE workshop makes stellaris mods too!?

i really like the idea of this mod but when put it into my playlist i dont see any change. is there a load order where it should be any known conflicts. i could spend hours looking and still come up with nothing

Update?

Is there a Machine Version of this?

this mod doesnt seem to work for me is there anything i should be aware of that wont work with it or load order maybe

I've done just as TheGrandN suggested and made a Toxoids compatible version of this mod. It's uploaded here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2891787560 . @AryxCami, Please let me know if you have any issue with this and I'll happily take down my version or add you as a contributor. Just happy to be keeping your work alive.

Toxoids adds a new star to the mix. That accounts for the CTD on -that- system. A quick fix:
--Add the toxoid star to the gfx/models/planets/_star_entities.asset file.
-- Add the toxoid light to the gfx/lights/star_lights.asset file.

You can find the new entries you need to add in the same folders in your Stellaris install.

If somebody wants to get enterprising, add a slight green light to it as well. (At least, I think green. Haven't seen -that- star system myself beyond the initializer! )

Incompatible with 3.5 & 3.6 due to the new star added in the Toxic God origin.

So far with the new "Knights of The Toxic God" Origin, the system that shows up when you find the Toxic God will CTD when you view it with this mod enabled.

Erin you idiot get off SE and update your mods smh

I'm using this with the latest real space and system scale submod, and with starlight loaded after all Real Space mods, it is working. Checking the mod in Irony, I can see it has some different settings than Real Space, but the game seems to work alright without resolving those conflicts.

i just started using real space again and with the system scale submod, this no longer works. Oof.

I have this working with just real space but also with ACG which has also rescaled the system. Good mod. Was not paying attention to the light emitting but now as I know this mod is great to have :)

It doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe it's because of Real Space - System Scale submod?

I've noticed that there is a point light entity for use with black holes, but it's never used.
Is this intentional?

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1860550127467194556/DECD286478586A964DF4B5EC6DD07687272F084C/?imw=1920&&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Let's see if this links.

IMHO black holes (with accretion disk, which is all of them I think) really should provide *some* light, even if it's not much.

is there any particular load order, or do i have to start a new game, cause i ccant see any difference, all planets in trinary or binary system still get lit up from the centre of the system

what about the rs system scale?

can't edit that post so i have to add this. the file you're looking for is "star_lights.asset", in the lights folder. just right click on that file and open it with notepad++

How do I make it generate light for the Gigastructural stuff?

Thank you

can you extend the radius of the starlight? I'm still getting black unlit planets in the outer areas with system scale

Yes

Is this compatible with the most recent patch?

@doc yes its the accretion disk. For all intents and purposes, from the point of view of someone on a planet orbiting the hole, it would look like a sun in the sky. If it was an earth-like planet, it would be a comfortable place, as look as you don't mind the time dilation with the rest of the universe's time moving faster than your world. But that could be interesting too =P

while the Black hole itself would produce no light, the gases and particles of the accretion disk would become super heated plasma as they spiral in towards the event horizon and would actually glow quite brightly and give off a considerable amount of radiation all the way into the X-ray band.

Is it technically the accretion disc which emits light? (And the black hole itself emits Hawking radiation which is usually particles?)

Either way we only see black holes WITH accretion discs in Stellaris so the Stellaris versions should emit some light.

@scyobi, but black holes do emit light...

Not sure if this is possible without editing the Checksum, but is it possible to make blackholes emit no light?

@doctornull, isn't there a falloff variable in the grfx/star_light.asset file? I believe i saw it at 0, maybe changing that will create the light falloff you desired? I don't know what the exact numbers should be though, so it would take a bit of experimenting.

Does the mod affect FPS?

2voidster, yea i know, thats why i'm asking for a patch to make it work for system scale..

Would it be possible to add the O-class from Gigastructural engineering?

Any mod that messes with system scale will throw this mod for a loop and all your planets will be black/dark. Glad i found this, i thought my card was dying for a second haha. Ill come back to this mod in a while, it works well and looks great. just not compatible with my current build/game mod set.

will there ever be a patch for system scale because the outer planets don't receive the light

Will there be a compatibility patch for the O class stars from gigastructures?

love this but only realy visible with multiple sun in system that far apart sadly not working with custom sun from mods it seems would be cool :) stil looks bit more natural when start emits their own light instead of center of system. also love machine shipset its my fav :)

@vic wow that is intense, that planet should be cooking lol

@AryxErin - yeah it's not fair to ask you to do all the work for other people's mods.

Is there a way for someone else to do a patch for those new stellar objects to give them compatible light to yours? Tell me where I can start with that.


@Vicinian - it would be perfect if intensity fell off proportionate to the orbital distance, so the planets of other stars got a lot less intensity from stars not their own.

Absolutely in love with this mod, but is there any chance the light intensity can be decreased? As you can see [imgur.com], the intensity can be quite ridiculous as it is now, unfortunately...

This mod is lovely. I used it for a few minutes, and it was beautiful, until my computer started crying out.

ofc :) thank you for your work!

As long as credit is provided.

@Doctornull That's mainly because I don't have a definition for their star type and thus can't add a light to it.

Hey can i add your mod into my total conversion? Or is there a quick way to increase overall galaxy visuals by changing a few variables? Coz obviously you put a lot of time into experimenting what works best. Looks amazing!

I would also like to know same things as doc

Dude this is amazing! :D I never knew I needed this mod so badly!