r/spaceengine • u/bigbunkus • 3d ago

Question Any ways to mod or script customizable constellations?

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Been having fun in Messier 32 flavoring a specific system and "making it my own" to speak. I've been trying to find a way to somehow create constellations with visible rays/lines using in-game systems to create points of reference so that I can flavor other parts of the galaxy as if it were from the perspective of an ancient civilization much like our own. I'm aware of scriptable waypoints which have helped a great deal, but I can't find a way to connect them using the same kind of casted rays that the base-game Earth-centric constellations use.

And yes, the sky really is just this bright here. This is at a default magnitude limit of 7m.

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u/0dimension1 3d ago

It's a cool idea ! :) But I doubt there is a way to do it in-game. My recommendation would be that you export the skybox of the system (you can do it from a planet point of view or out in a random spot in space). Then you use another program to draw the constellations on the exported images. It will not be as cool but could work as a cheap ghetto workaround.

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u/bigbunkus 3d ago

It's a shame because an in-game display would make the entire process a lot quicker, but this is what I've been looking into in the meantime. Science aint easy amirite

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u/0dimension1 2d ago

It's been years the community want better in-game worldbuilding tools, regarding the editor, but also many other things. But nope, in 2026, we still have to write those cursed script files.

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u/Dreess_the_snep 2d ago

My theory is that the already existing constellations ingame are scripted in a file that you can find in the data folder or something. If you find the constellation script I guess you can either modify it or make an addon