Making the sun into a red giant

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Auscreely

Making the sun into a red giant

Post #1by Auscreely » 19.01.2003, 06:13

There are 2 ways: 1 guiv stars start and end times, and when it is time for the sun to expand end the sun and add a red giant with the same name in its place, keeping the name the same will keep all of the planits orbiting it.
2 The solution for noew is to make a larg planit with a start and end date, and the nekt week or so make a larger planit around the start with an end date so it would apear that the sun was expanding, then when it got big enoph chang the red giant texture so it as trancperincy and make it an atmosphear then when you add the next planit start and end date rais the atmosphear height to simulate the sun shedding its outter layers, then make the sun shrink back down to a wight dwarph

I am starting to try this, and will keep everybody posted

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Post #2by billybob884 » 01.02.2003, 20:14

for just the sun, this would work. but to do this for every star, we don't even have enough info first of all, not to mention the ammount of memory needed would be quite large, but this does sound tempting... although something would have to be done about transitions
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