Panglia Orbit Patch

by xor50

Make Panglia a real moon around Gleba.

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a day ago
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g Thanks for continuing the tradition lol

a day ago

Glad to see another orbit patch mod for those pseudo-moon mods that don't have them natively applied, and thanks for the credit!

a day ago

When I saw in the changelog that the planet was supposed to be a moon and I loaded into my game and it was far off I knew it was a "fake orbit" (see post for that mod here: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/panglia_planet/discussion/68f77733c1cc3fe85ca6f0e0).
It probably was so far off because of the tiered solar system mod.
First I wanted to suggest to you that you could do a patch mod for that as well but then I thought why bother you, you might not even be playing right now, might not wanna download the mod etc. and I just made it.
Now if you wanna just make the mod yourself so they are all "collected" under your name, especially considering you have all the other planet and orbit related mods, feel free to do so! Another thing to keep in mind is that Panglia is marked as beta right now, and it was only made a moon like 2 weeks ago or so, so I wouldn't be too surprised if the author would change it again, until their "full release", beta is beta.

a day ago
(updated a day ago)

Yup, I would have done it myself if I had realized it was supposed to be a moon; it wasn't the most obvious change (apart from the lack of an orbit drawn around the sun). I don't mind not having ownership over the "panglia-orbit-patch" name, as long as it fulfills the same functionality.

Although I might not agree with the new placement of Panglia, but that's just because I don't like moving planets from their original locations, unless otherwise necessary, and the new location is in a direction that is already quite "busy" as it is, with several other modded planets in the near vicinity, when compared to its original location. Though considering the context, it seems this patch mod was intended more for Organized Solar System compatibility (which I personally don't use), rather than general compatibility.

I made my own implementation of an orbit patch that is integrated into Redrawn Space Compatibility, which collapses all of the orbit patch mods into one singular compatibility mod for Redrawn Space Connections, but kept Panglia in the exact same location.

a day ago

I also don't 100% like the position. But that's easy to change, I wanted to start somewhere.
(Also it should be easy to change depending on if tiered solar system is active or not, should just be a simple if. Because for example I don't 100% like the position of Frozeta, it's almost on the connection to Aquilo...)

Do you know by any chance... the positions of the names is not changeable, or is it? I think per default the go to the right on the right side of the sun and to the left on the left side of the sun.
Because with the tiered solar system either Panglia is hidden under the Gleba name or the Panglia name hides Gleba itself. That's why I changed the position slightly.

a day ago
(updated a day ago)

Do you know by any chance... the positions of the names is not changeable, or is it? I think per default the go to the right on the right side of the sun and to the left on the left side of the sun.

I think label_orientation is what you are looking for? I saw it in the prototype definition for panglia while I was checking its distance/orientation values

It says the default value when undefined is 0.25, which should always put the label slightly up and to the right, unless otherwise defined. I get the feeling Organized Solar System probably changes this so it makes more sense for planets on the left side of the sun. Panglia is manually defined as 0.25

a day ago

Oh ok, that would make sense. Will check that out, maybe it makes this much easier to solve. Thanks!

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