Sector background 'image' - is there any way to get it or affect it?

[Rinart73]

I mean, is there any way to get generated planet or sun image data (to display it in the GUI for example) or someway change it?

 

It can help people to make sector more unique, I think.

[Laserzwei]

If I saw it correctly, the sector background is bound to the sector Seed. The planets however are moddable.

Some reference code:

\data\scripts\sectorspecifics.lua

    SectorSpecifics:generatePlanets()

    SectorSpecifics.generatePlanet(planets, random)

    SectorSpecifics.generateMoon(random)

    SectorSpecifics.generateBlackHole(random)

    SectorSpecifics.getPlanetPosition(random, size)

 

\data\scripts\entity\merchants\planetarytradingpost.lua

    PlanetaryTradingPost.generatePlanetGoods(planet)

 

\data\scripts\entity\story\wormholeguardian.lua

    WormholeGuardian.createChannelBeam()

 

code to get you the planets of a secot

package.path = package.path .. ";data/scripts/?.lua"
local SectorSpecifics = require ("sectorspecifics")

local specs = SectorSpecifics(x, y, Server().seed)
local planets = {specs:generatePlanets()}

 

API:

Planet

enum PlanetType

PlanetSpecifics

 

[Rinart73]

I read the Documentation and searched in the code, so I found these too.

But I don't see any way to modify planet data. We can either trigger generation or get list of the planets and from this list we can know the type of the planet at most.