[1.0.5] RSS Planets & Moons expanded v0.12.0 Sedna is finally here!

[Einkleinermensch]

Oh, pozine, your work is just amazing!

I'll fly an asteroid mission as fast as I deal with my exploding satellite buses on Linux

[56464]

Saying it again, this pack is awesome. I finally got a chance to try a mission with it today. Realism Overhaul was having some issues (my biggest problems with it is the realistic ion engines, I don't have a year to wait for a burn, does anyone know how to fix this in the configs?) so I went without it to send a lander and orbiter to Ceres.

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When is 0.8.0

[pozine]

Saying it again, this pack is awesome. I finally got a chance to try a mission with it today. Realism Overhaul was having some issues (my biggest problems with it is the realistic ion engines, I don't have a year to wait for a burn, does anyone know how to fix this in the configs?) so I went without it to send a lander and orbiter to Ceres.

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When is 0.8.0

When it's done hahaha. It will add a couple other bodies. Some asteroids, a comet, some TNOs...

[srbgaming]

I agree that Ceres should NOT be flatter. I've seen a lot of Dawn images, and the ingame Ceres is pretty close to the level of unevenness on Ceres.

[pozine]

Found a new heightmap for Vesta... An oblate one.

Also found a real color map of Pluto

Edited August 15, 2015 by pozine

[pozine]

New Vesta

Real Vesta

[Olympic1]

I know it can't be 100% realistic but I guess thats about 90 - 95%.

Keep up the good work

[pozine]

UPDATE 0.8.0 2015/08/15

- Changed Vesta Heightmap

- Changed Ida Heightmap

- Changed Pluto texture

- Added Orcus, Vanth, Makemake, Lutetia, Amalthea and 67P/C-G, the Rosetta comet!

- Added science values based on difficulty

- Added a biome to Metis

- Lowered Normalmaps size (lowers ram usage)

I NEED to know what you think of the new Pluto texture versus the one in last version.

Edited August 16, 2015 by pozine

[srbgaming]

ORCUS! Great!

Also, that new Vesta is way better than I ever expected Vesta could be in KSP (In my old planet packs I couldn't get Vesta oblate because of how big it is, how did you do it?).

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UPDATE 0.8.0 2015/08/15

- Changed Vesta Heightmap

- Changed Ida Heightmap

- Changed Pluto texture

- Added Orcus, Vanth, Makemake, Lutetia and Amalthea

- Added science values based on difficulty

- Added a biome to Metis

- Lowered Normalmaps size (lowers ram usage)

I NEED to know what you think of the new Pluto texture versus the one in last version.

I just took a look at it, and IMO I preferred the old one. The new texture seems a little too white/red rather than orange/brown as the real pictures came out.

[_Augustus_]

Sweet! Moar KBOs!

[pozine]

ORCUS! Great!

Also, that new Vesta is way better than I ever expected Vesta could be in KSP (In my old planet packs I couldn't get Vesta oblate because of how big it is, how did you do it?).

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I just took a look at it, and IMO I preferred the old one. The new texture seems a little too white/red rather than orange/brown as the real pictures came out.

I found a real Vesta heightmap based on a mesh from the asteroid. Then, adjusted some parameters in kopernicus so that its dimensions match real world values. (Its radius is equal to Vesta's lowest point. Then matched the heightmap highest point to Vesta's highest point. Simple as that.)

I think I prefered ancient pluto too. Even if its not colored with real colors.

Also, I just found out that Vesta's new dimensions still aren't quite right. Oblateness will increase with the corrected dimensions.

Edited August 16, 2015 by pozine

[pozine]

Converted all textures to DDS. Saved about 18mb of space.

Edit : Nevermind... It's buggy and don't know why

Double Edit : Problem solved.

Edited August 16, 2015 by pozine

[pozine]

Next version will be the DDS and Biomes release.

[eggrobin]

Note to Principia users regarding this mod:

The new version of Principia (Bourbaki) comes with initial state and gravity models configs for all bodies in Real Solar System as of 2015-08-16. Moreover, initial states and gravity models are provided for the following bodies from this mod:

Charon;

Titania;

Oberon;

Ariel;

Umbriel;

Miranda;

Ceres;

Vesta (fresh data from the Dawn mission ).

We very strongly recommend that you use Charon, since otherwise Pluto keeps its motion around Charon without having Charon to pull it back, and ends up in a strange orbit.

No other bodies are supported, so if you do install pozine's pack, make sure you remove all other bodies: if Real Solar System is installed and unsupported planets are found, the game will crash. This means that you must remove them from the RSS Planets & Moons.cfg file, as well as remove their respective folders. You should probably remove their textures too, to reduce memory usage.

[pozine]

UPDATE 0.8.1 2015/08/18

- Updated most moons orbital elements so they match real world values

- Added biomes to : Pluto, Charon, Ceres, Vesta, Adrastea, Amalthea, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Miranda, Pallas and Umbriel

- Changed texture format to DDS. Saved 18mb.

Also, Pre-0.8.0-Pluto is back!

Edited August 19, 2015 by pozine

[pozine]

Back to college now. Update pace will be slowed down

[pozine]

Next version will add an heightmap to Iapetus.

It has an equatorial ridge that rise 20 km high. The ridge has some of the highest mountains in the solar system. Which I thought it would be important to add in RSS.

Credits: Space Engine

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Tried to replicate this picture here : http://erikwernquist.com/wanderers/images/gallery/WANDERERS_iapetus_ridge_01.jpg

Edited August 22, 2015 by pozine

[Matuchkin]

Are you thinking of adding some extreme stuff, such as 90377 Sedna, 2000 CR105, or anything else? Also, can you please add Pluto's other asteroid moons?

[pozine]

I don't think I will add Sedna. Its orbit is so exentric I highly doubt it's attainable. I will try though.

But for the next 2 months, I have to stop working on the mod because of college.

[Olympic1]

I don't think I will add Sedna. Its orbit is so exentric I highly doubt it's attainable. I will try though.

But for the next 2 months, I have to stop working on the mod because of college.

Just skip it.

NO, NO, don't do that! RL comes first, then games

[pozine]

Haha no! I can't skip it

[Guest]

Do you have this on Github somewhere? Much as I appreciate the work you've put into this it needs some reworking. This would also open it up for use with, say, CKAN, although I'm not entirely sure how the RSSTexture folder would play.

I have some proposed changes and would be more than willing to implement them if you want, so long as I have a repository to commit to.

• You shouldn't have a RealSolarSystem directory or a config for it. Use ModuleManager exclusively and don't overwrite.
  
• All png files should be moved to a PluginData folder so that they are not automatically loaded by KSP. *see below
  
• Each addition should have its own config file for easy pruning (for instance, I don't play with the outer dwarf planets).

These observations are based on downloads of the links from the OP (both the normal and "LITE" version).

Thanks for all the hard work, I really enjoy this mod.

E: * I was kind of wrong there.

[14:23:28] <Thomas> regex: Height, and biome maps should go into PluginData/. If RSS-Expansion uses different color maps for PQS and ScaledSpace, the PQS-Map should go into PluginData/ too.

The height and biome maps are png. Anything outside of PluginData should be a dds.

Edited September 10, 2015 by regex

[vosechu]

Do you have this on Github somewhere? Much as I appreciate the work you've put into this it needs some reworking. This would also open it up for use with, say, CKAN, although I'm not entirely sure how the RSSTexture folder would play.

I have some proposed changes and would be more than willing to implement them if you want, so long as I have a repository to commit to.

regex,

as an upstanding community member, I would happily use your fork until pozine is able to finish up his school. I was just in the process of making some of these changes myself so I could use ATM.

Let us know if you start a temporary fork!

[Guest]

Let us know if you start a temporary fork!

Yeah, I might.

[pozine]

Do you have this on Github somewhere? Much as I appreciate the work you've put into this it needs some reworking. This would also open it up for use with, say, CKAN, although I'm not entirely sure how the RSSTexture folder would play.

I have some proposed changes and would be more than willing to implement them if you want, so long as I have a repository to commit to.

• You shouldn't have a RealSolarSystem directory or a config for it. Use ModuleManager exclusively and don't overwrite.
  
• All png files should be moved to a PluginData folder so that they are not automatically loaded by KSP. *see below
  
• Each addition should have its own config file for easy pruning (for instance, I don't play with the outer dwarf planets).
  

These observations are based on downloads of the links from the OP (both the normal and "LITE" version).

Thanks for all the hard work, I really enjoy this mod.

E: * I was kind of wrong there.

The height and biome maps are png. Anything outside of PluginData should be a dds.

Hello again!

Yeah I agree completely that it needs a solid rework and a Github.

I don't know how to use module manager so I had to overwrite some files like RealSolarSystem.cfg

I'd like to learn how to use it though. But if you can help me, that would be a lot better.

I will finish school in exactly one month.

*Manley voice*

So until then, fly safe!