G'th Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 (edited) Run that through the Latin setting in Google Translate if you don't know what the title means. SOL will continue development until it is finished finished to my satisfaction. No releases until then. Current works in-progress: -Mars and its Moons. -New Vibrance version for Earth based on real-time imagery from the Himawari-8 satellite -Refinements to Earth's cloud dynamics aimed at improving performance. -ongoing heightmap tweaks and adjustments for Moon and Mars. (earth too probably) -Duna-ified Mars for Vibrance version (Potentially also a secondary option for a Blue Sky Mars, for those who want to play in a universe where the conspiracy theory that NASA was hiding what Mars actually looked like was true) -Global Dust Storm Mars (I want to aim to just have this happen naturally via Dynamics, but it might not work out that way; we shall see) Mars (so far): Edited October 9, 2022 by G'th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman31 Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 Now this is epic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneOne Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 Wonderful my guy! hope this time it goes better for you! I will keep tabs on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 Re-did the whole thing after finding a rather terrible error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceFace545 Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 (edited) Glad to see you're back. Is the earth stuff still a part of this? Edited June 25, 2022 by SpaceFace545 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, SpaceFace545 said: Glad to see you're back. Is the earth stuff still a part of this? Yep. Got some cool stuff planned for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceFace545 Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, G'th said: Yep. Got some cool stuff planned for it. Siiiiick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 Just now, SpaceFace545 said: Siiiiick yessir. Basically atm I'm wanting to nail down Mars so I can start posting my alt-history w/illustrations and then I'll be swapping between that and this. Surface is damn near perfect though I'm still getting blocky terrain, though considerably less than previous attempts so its definitely progress. Scatters will be touched as well, and then we'll move on to the weather. Really want to figure out how to get a blue sunset. It almost goes there but isn't quite as blue as it should be, but atmosphers still WIP anyway soo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinLights Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 This is gonna be epic You're doing some amazing work here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 (edited) Amusing as it looks, I don't believe Valles Marineris is quite this extreme of a canyon. For reference the bottom of this thing was about 10km below the top. But, despite the overwhelming extremity of the canyons, thanks to @R-T-Band @OhioBob I was able to resolve the blockyness to my satisfaction (While also managing to retain even more detail), so now its just a matter of tweaking the heights so it uh, isn't quite this bonkers lol. Edited June 28, 2022 by G'th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneOne Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 13 hours ago, G'th said: Amusing as it looks, I don't believe Valles Marineris is quite this extreme of a canyon. For reference the bottom of this thing was about 10km below the top. But, despite the overwhelming extremity of the canyons, thanks to @R-T-Band @OhioBob I was able to resolve the blockyness to my satisfaction (While also managing to retain even more detail), so now its just a matter of tweaking the heights so it uh, isn't quite this bonkers lol. tbf you would be surprised how it looks from the bottom I've been to the grand canyon and its bonkers how deep it actually looks. its just its gonna look strange given the surface texture, parallax might be something you wanna look into using here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 5 hours ago, TheLoneOne said: tbf you would be surprised how it looks from the bottom I've been to the grand canyon and its bonkers how deep it actually looks. its just its gonna look strange given the surface texture, parallax might be something you wanna look into using here. True enough, and apparently the actual lowest points in Marineris is around 7km deep, so its actually not that far off lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 Olympus Mons is just, wild. And here's a lander for a sense of scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adiri Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Looking good! Can't wait for release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneOne Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 On 6/28/2022 at 6:36 PM, G'th said: Olympus Mons is just, wild. And here's a lander for a sense of scale. looking good, will be def installing ksrss again when this releases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted July 2, 2022 Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 (edited) A look at the two options for Mars: TrueSight Vibrance: Technically speaking, both are true color, as Mars has a peculiar annoyance in that the colors vary depending on how much dust is in the air, which is why Mars in "true color" photographs range from the bright Duna-ish red to the more pale yellow brown. And here's the new Earth, which greatly improved terrain, as well as the new Vibrance version of earth: True Sight: Vibrance: And here's some up close looks for True Sight. This is at 180km in altitude: Edited July 2, 2022 by G'th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneOne Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 idk if this just looks way better today and its a major change or mabye its just me being high on the new meds im trying as of last night, but your doing realllllly good on this dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted July 2, 2022 Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 Just now, TheLoneOne said: idk if this just looks way better today and its a major change or mabye its just me being high on the new meds im trying as of last night, but your doing realllllly good on this dude. Probably both. I mean, look at this bruh. This is Vibrance at 120km in height. This is just, bonkers lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneOne Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, G'th said: Probably both. I mean, look at this bruh. This is Vibrance at 120km in height. This is just, bonkers lol. im not high this really does look amazing, you even captured how spain actually looks from orbit correctly i think usually people think its just green but no its a bit more similar to how Morocco's terrain looks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted July 2, 2022 Author Share Posted July 2, 2022 If we can't tell, I am having just a grand old time with the new version of Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Shaftoe Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Ha ha, very funny G'th. Stop trying to pass off actual orbital photography as a KSP mod. Jokes aside this looks stunning. Those earth textures are absolutely mind-blowing! I never thought I'd see a KSP screenshot that looked that good at a 120Km orbit. I was impressed by the clouds in the old dev thread, but these screenshots have convinced me that you've transcended simple EVE configs to reach a level of cloud-fu wizardry the community has never seen before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 Figured out how to get Mars' sunsets working correctly, and also tuned the atmosphere to be as close as I could get it to the real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G'th Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 And some adjustments to the cloud system. Much better performance, though some old features are going to have to be redacted. Unfortunate but as they were tiny details anyhow not too much is lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinLights Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Good lord man, just beautiful, amazing what you're doing with KSP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutabaga22 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Would you mind explaining what this mods is? I can't seem to find a description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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