Asteroid Belts - Useable Ones Please

[karakris]

Do we have an Option for creating Asteroid Belts ?

Let me explain -
In my "Krissyverse", which is based on this Galaxy - but I invent my own Star Systems.

It is now 2137 and we have had Fast FTL Drives for the last seven years.

We have Colonised 6 Star Systems now which have Asteroids Belts, sometimes as many as three.
We are putting Bases on some of these - for Mining, for Colonies, for System Defences, for Shipyards.
Some Players are even building Bio-Domes on them, for Hydroponics and even BIG ones for full scale Agriculture.
Some Players are building Factories and Industrial Units on Asteroids.

Riight - so if I am gonna TRY to model these Systems - we need to be able to create an Asteroid Belt "to order", specifying numbers of Asteroids, inner and outer diameter / radius in AU, range of sizes, perhaps even proportions of big to small ones.

However - once created, any of the actual Asteroids has got to be able to be "clicked" - then Named, its Properties edited - mass, diameter, density, orbit details.  Then they would all be "real" Asteroids.

Do we have any of this ??

[LethalByte]

I believe this has already be discussed in topic http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,3561.0.html

[karakris]

True - Okay

[planetfuse]

to make a asteroid belt you simply make rings around a star, enter the end length and the beginning length eg end is 10 M kilometers and beginning is 5 Million km

[karakris]

Aye

But does that make Asteroid Belts with actual Name-able Asteroids, with editable Properties ??

[Darvince]

No you would have to make all the asteroids as objects if you want to do that. Then also include the dust for the small ones you aren't naming.

[karakris]

Aye

But there's the Rub - sounds like a lot of work

Sorry - I am kinda lazy

[Quontex]

Well to be Honest, i spent 3 hours placing asteriods in an orbit around a star and made a belt.... But it crashed as i was saving. 

[Dan Dixon]

I'm sorry it crashed.

Maybe next time... save as you go just in case.

How many objects did you place?

[Quontex]

well, I'm not surprised it crashed.... about 2-3000 objects

I was board

[Darvince]

umm... wtf I get crashes at 600 objects

[Dan Dixon]

Even with 2000-3000 objects it shouldn't have crashed.

If you ever create that many objects again and get a save file that crashes, send it to me. It shouldn't crash.

Do we have an Option for creating Asteroid Belts ?

And I can't promise when, but this is a very reasonable feature request.