It seems that in the last 20 years every possible idea surfaced...
Or am I wrong?
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Eric Nelson wrote:I made an addon for V838 Monocerotis as a binary system based on studies.
1 M-type red supergiant and 1 B3-type main sequence star.
I even made a custom texture for V838 Monocerotis A from scratch (using paint.net) as many view it (a bright magenta star) and while the glow around it isn't affected, it looks goos with it.
The spectral type, magnitude, luminosity, temperature and radius for it was based off of gironde's addon of largest stars viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19624&p=141067&hilit=proxima+centauri#p141067
Which simulates the star much more accurately than Meegja's V838 Monocerotis Nova addon from the Celestia Motherlode, which simulates it as an unrealistically smaller K star (along with an unrealistically flat billboard model of the nova with some bumps and a highly outdated image).
Though it doesn't simulate V838 Mono as a binary system which it is (a red supergiant and main sequence star) and what my addon of it is.
Eric Nelson wrote:The part is about the star color and V838 Monocerotis appearing magenta which seems surreal (and impossible to some) actually but stars have colors.
Eric Nelson wrote:Now an impossible addon to make is a star with Earth's continents or any terrestrial landscape on the surface along with life on such.
Stars are too hot to live on and are made of hot gases and plasma.
yeahSevenSpheres wrote:That's certainly unrealistic, but not impossible to render.
you can change the texture of the star in the code as you were doing here, viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21181Eric Nelson wrote:Now an impossible addon to make is a star with Earth's continents or any terrestrial landscape on the surface along with life on such.
Eric Nelson wrote:Yeah, and the point is in reality, it would be impossible for a star to look like a terrestrial planet unless the mass is reduced and density matches that of a terrestrial.
Yet in reality we don't even have the technology to convert Sol or any star into a planet or such as they're part of nature and nature always wins.
Yet an Earth sized object with 1 Solar mass would quality as a white dwarf which certainly wouldn't look anything like Earth.
And if Earth were a star, the 1st thing that would happen is everything including us would burn up and stuff.
Of course Celestia's photo and code based and not meant to simulate gravity like Universe Sandbox or other gravity simulators.
Such an addon would be good for fictional purposes only.