#hello, i am trying to mod the rings of all solar system gas giants and haumea where are the textures

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opaque wigeon
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idk

paper mulchBOT
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thorn thunder
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All data about real objects are stored in the /data directory in your SpaceEngine folder. The textures for the rings are in /data/textures/planets. All files ending in .pak are just renamed .zip files, so you can make a copy of Rings.pak, rename it to Rings.zip, and then extract it to see what's inside.

You shouldn't be modifying any of these files though. You should ideally make a copy of the Rings folder and make it into an addon. You can do this by going to your /addons folder, making a new folder called something like myCustomRings, and then inside that folder recreate the file structure you found in /data. Namely, you want a file structure like this:

/addons
  |
  +- myCustomRings
      |
      +- textures
          |
          +- planets
              |
              +- Rings

Then you can edit whatever you want in the Rings folder, and then you can remove the addon at any time to restore the game to its original state. Doing it this way also guarantees that your changes won't be reverted by a game update that also wants to modify Rings.pak.

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Haumea's rings are currently procedurally generated, so you won't find a texture in Rings.pak. You can make one by using the same format as the other ring textures-- they're just 1-pixel-tall PNGs showing ring density/color as you get further from the planet. Make a texture (or copy an existing texture) and rename it Haumea-rings.png and put it in your Rings folder. Then you'll need to make a copy of the Haumea script in your addon to include your new texture.

DwarfPlanet    "Haumea/(136108) Haumea/2003 EL61"
{
    ParentBody     "Sun"
    AsterType      "Cubewano"

    Dimensions     (2322, 1138, 1704)
    OblatenessInfo  0.434
    Mass            0.00066

    RotationPeriod  3.9155
    Obliquity       126   // used Hi'iaka's orbit Inclination
    EqAscendNode    26    // used Hi'iaka's orbit AscendingNode

    AbsMagn         0.1
    SlopeParam      0.15
    Albedo          0.51
    Brightness      1.0 // 3.0

    Rings
    {
        //Texture        "Haumea-rings.*"
        InnerRadius     2252
        OuterRadius     2322
    }

    Orbit
    {
        RefPlane       "Ecliptic"
        Epoch           2456401
        MeanMotion      0.00348839
        SemiMajorAxis   43.0579
        Eccentricity    0.195253
        Inclination     28.1941
        AscendingNode   121.819
        ArgOfPericenter 240.678
        MeanAnomaly     206.48
    }

}

This is the script for Haumea, found in /data/catalogs/Catalogs.pak. Since this is a planet script, it belongs in /addons/myCustomRings/catalogs/planets. Name the file Haumea.sc, and make two changes:

  • Add a new line at the very top of the file that says Remove "Haumea". This prevents the game from loading the default Haumea script so it loads yours instead.
  • Remove the two slashes (//) in front of the word "Texture" in the Rings tag.
    With all of this done, Haumea will spawn with your custom texture.
spark sonnet
thorn thunder
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It should yes