Asteroids belt around Eps Eri

[bluemoon]

Hi eveybody,

I need help about an asteroids belt which I want to put around Eps Eri's star.
I want to align this asteroids belt with the 2 discovered planets (b & c).
I use an object named test9.cmod, can you help me ?

Thank you in advance.

[SevenSpheres]

Try downloading the "Asteroid Maker" spreadsheet from here.

Added after 31 minutes 21 seconds:
Wait...I think you're saying you have a model for the entire asteroid belt. You can look at the asteroid belt addon in the Lua Tools and/or Cham's addons in this thread for examples; the ssc file should look something like this:

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"Asteroid belt" "EPS Eri" {
   Class "diffuse"
   Mesh "test9.cmod"
   Orientation <if necessary for the mesh>
   Emissive true
   Radius <radius of asteroid belt in km>
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period 9e+12
      SemiMajorAxis 0
   }
   UniformRotation {
      RotationPeriod <some value; not necessary>
      Inclination <same as planets>
      AscendingNode <same as planets>
   }
}

[bluemoon]

Wait...I think you're saying you have a model for the entire asteroid belt.
for examples; the ssc file should look something like this:

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"Asteroid belt" "EPS Eri" {
   Class "diffuse"
   Mesh "test9.cmod"
   Orientation <if necessary for the mesh>
   Emissive true
   Radius <radius of asteroid belt in km>
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period 9e+12
      SemiMajorAxis 0
   }
   UniformRotation {
      RotationPeriod <some value; not necessary>
      Inclination <same as planets>
      AscendingNode <same as planets>
   }
}

Thank you for you reply.

Yes, you understood very well, I have a model for the entire asteroid belt.
With your council, here is the code:

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"Ast_belt" "Eps Eri"
{
   Class "diffuse"
   Mesh "test9.cmod"
   Orientation [ 0 1 0 0 ]
   Emissive true
   Radius 599918190000
   
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period 9e+12
      SemiMajorAxis 0
   }

   UniformRotation {
      RotationPeriod 99
      Inclination 75.38005
      AscendingNode 284.34255
   }
}


But it gives with celestia a vertical asteroid belt and not a horizontal (like blue line).

[SevenSpheres]

What exoplanet catalog are you using - Sirius_Alpha's or the default one?

[bluemoon]

This is Sirius_Alpha.

[SevenSpheres]

The orientation of the model is wrong then. I have no idea what it should be; maybe try [90 1 0 0]?

[bluemoon]

Yes I found too.
TY