Utilitarian Star System Generator

coolAlias said:
Don't sell yourself short! :D



So if n=6 and we need 100, that's 6 to the 100th power, which is that ginormous number I mentioned earlier.

I hope 653,318,623,500,070,897,423,596,169,561,540,920,217,390,783,243,900,597,935,846,601,233,315,745,759,232 is clear enough in its impossibility even without factoring in the additional complexity of calculating an RNG matrix for each of those... ;)
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Yeah. Way above My head these days. lol
 
Hi coolAlias, this is great, thanks for making and sharing it!

Is there a trick to entering a Star Profile? I'd like to put in the data for real stars, like Alpha Centauri, but if I add anything more than "G2V:K1V" I get "Failed to parse invalid Roman Numeral" errors. And if I copy and paste a generated System Profile (as a test) that doesn't work either. Maybe it's not possible, but I'd like to set the mass, diameter, luminosity, age manually (setting the orbital distance for any binary or trinary companions would be even better, but I know that would be a lot to ask). Even just using the stellar type the random generator keeps producing stars that are much too young.
 
Ren Corso said:
Hi coolAlias, this is great, thanks for making and sharing it!

Is there a trick to entering a Star Profile? I'd like to put in the data for real stars, like Alpha Centauri, but if I add anything more than "G2V:K1V" I get "Failed to parse invalid Roman Numeral" errors. And if I copy and paste a generated System Profile (as a test) that doesn't work either. Maybe it's not possible, but I'd like to set the mass, diameter, luminosity, age manually (setting the orbital distance for any binary or trinary companions would be even better, but I know that would be a lot to ask). Even just using the stellar type the random generator keeps producing stars that are much too young.
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The Star Profile currently only supports Type, Subtype, and Class - i.e. not a full System Profile.

The age of star(s) is determined based on my best interpretation of the rules as written in the WBH.

I'm still way too busy with my real life job, but I don't think it'd be too difficult to parse a full system profile, which can/does include the age of the primary star. One of these days... :D
 
coolAlias said:
The Star Profile currently only supports Type, Subtype, and Class - i.e. not a full System Profile.

The age of star(s) is determined based on my best interpretation of the rules as written in the WBH.

I'm still way too busy with my real life job, but I don't think it'd be too difficult to parse a full system profile, which can/does include the age of the primary star. One of these days... :D
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Yeah I suspected that might be the case, allowing for input of mass, age, etc would be a fair amount of work. When I generate a star from scratch the ages are normal (2-12 Gyr), it's only when I plug in a stellar type (like G2V) that I get ages of 0.0177 Gyr, so maybe there's a bug there? At any rate it's a great tool, thanks again!
 
Ren Corso said:
Yeah I suspected that might be the case, allowing for input of mass, age, etc would be a fair amount of work. When I generate a star from scratch the ages are normal (2-12 Gyr), it's only when I plug in a stellar type (like G2V) that I get ages of 0.0177 Gyr, so maybe there's a bug there? At any rate it's a great tool, thanks again!
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There does indeed seem to be a bug there - if you notice, G2V results in a G2 Ia star, thus the super young age! If you put a space between the 2 and V, it is interpreted correctly. Odd. Thanks for your attention to detail!
 
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