Soooo

you want horizontal disks with rainbows spewing out?

Just kidding

@ KrdaxDrkrun...

Here's the view of what the Yggdrasil HomeWorld will look like.  the objects tagged "Particle Effect" will actually be effects--If you look at Distant Star's Blackhole planet particles you'll get the idea for the top spinning vortice.  The plume shooting out of the bottom is just that--a plume of plasma fire shooting out of the vortice funnel. 

Both of these energy effects anchor on the center of the shattered planet model.  The debris planetoids are all models I have.

I'd like to have some sort of glowing energy in the center of the broken planet and have a spinning, dark, doughnut-shaped cloud of fog-gas rotating quickly around the planet.

So...

• Crackling, flaring energy coming from the planet core.
• Spinning energy tornado on top.
• Plume of plasma flame shooting downward from planet core.
• Rapidly swirling donut of shifting gas rotating about broken planet core, beneath the tornado.

When and if you see this, let me know your thoughts sir.  This is really the only "involved" effect.  The singularity siege ship can use an awesome blast for it's siege gun effect and then we're good to go (I think).

I'll try to get a mesh sized and made for you as soon as I can here.  The core planet is about the size of an asteroid and the entire model is about a largish planet.

WOW, I wanna see video on this monster in action.

So you have asteroids generated at far edge and sucked in a spiral towards center asteroid body and downward a bit, then vanish while the fiery plasma ejecta fires out the bottom? 

As I am pulling it all together, there will be--using the same texture and meshes already in-game--approximately 700 planet variants.  Just mapping out arrangements was  a pain.

This might sound excessive (or even obsessive) but these are not all "random spawn" but are planets for intentional placement on a custom map such as might be built into a campaign or tourney.

It will allow you to choose specific resource, logistics counts for every world type.  So if you want a Terran planet with 3 civilian slots and exactly 1 metal and 2 crystal resource asteroids then that's in there.  There also will be special planets with larger or counts of resources.

I also will have an additional Random Spawn mod that will make most non-standard worlds spawnable on random maps for those who like that sort of play. 

I have all along built specific and random militia units into my maps (that's what led me to modding) but as Goafan has done with his 4x Extended mo, I want to have random encounters built in as an option. for those who prefer that.  Unfortunately, that adds an potential additional 700 planet variants so I will have to experiment on some options for that.

The Random Spawn mod will  include the encounter templates by default.  The Strategic Placement version will require additional worlds.  I guess I'll have to see how the game handles 1400 world types.

I am also adding:

Colonizable Gas Giants--pretty much as  seen in Celestial Bodies and other mods

Variable Bodies--like those in Distant Stars with on-off switching abilities

Deathworlds--negative credit worlds with huge resource bonuses

Aquatic Worlds--requiring research to get real profit from

These will be standard in the Random mod and a stack-on mod for the Strategic Placement version.

More later--gotta go work in filthy, stinking carp real-life.

On a semi-related note...here is my pirate concept for the pirate stack mod.  Pirate ships will be rogue AI's who have declared independence from human/Vasari control but will still depend on them for spare parts and scavenged materials--hence the pirate raids are a necessity to finance and obtain parts and materials.

Each will be a capital ship with fighter movement  and a single forward firing weapon.  Each of the different pirate classes will fire a different effect weapon.

Sort of bastardized Mantrid drone.  Here's one in game:

Here's a quick shot of all three faction's tankers:

Looking good! 

I'd like some, yes.

I was just going to use stock exhaust trails so that's not an issue.

I have a particle effect mesh which appears under the tanker when the ability is turned on and I would like it to have effects.  It's a rotating antenna dish array that sits under and attached to the tanker's hull.  I'll post up the files and pics in a bit.

Here's a better pic of the three tankers (the Advent has three antenna added that aren't shown here).