How i make a custom planet?

[Jeb-head-mug kerman]

How do i make a custom planet?

[Speadge]

Im pretty sure this would fit into "add-on discussions".. or better get to read the "kopernicus How-To".

[steuben]

Is Kopernicus the only option? or is there a modless way of doing it?

[Megadeath]

1 hour ago, steuben said:

Is Kopernicus the only option? or is there a modless way of doing it?

Sure... But you'd just be making your own mod then. Why make it harder on yourself?

[KerikBalm]

If you want to mod the game, there is no modless way of doing it.

Kopernicus will make it easiest.

You need to make 3 things: A colormap, a heightmap, and a normal map... I think you can use kittopia exporter to generate the normals from the heightmap, and a different color map for the scaledspace view if you want (usefull if you have oceans).

You can optionally make a biome map as well.

Then you need to make the .cfg file for the planet... its easiest to use a "template" and just change specific parameters... ie orbit parameters, size, surface gravity, atmosphere.

Example colormaps:

 

 

[Jeb-head-mug kerman]

Thanks!