Alternis Real Solar System v0.1

[Whirligig Girl]

Rearranges the Real Solar System to be different like Alternis Kerbol

https://kerbalstuff.com/mod/1214/Alternis%20Real%20Solar%20System

Version 0.1 of Alternis Kerbol.

In the beginning, God created the heavens. It was without form, void, and darkness was upon the space of the deep. At this point, God said “Let there be light." and there was light. It was good, He thought to himself. At this point Alternis (Not to be confused with Alternis, the Kerbal god of change and difference) peeked into God's universe room. “Screw your light! She said. “It's the wrong color!" And so she created her own cosmos that was subtly different. This was the Alternis Cosmos.

This is the Alternis Solar System, the Mod without an Acryonym!

Alternis Kerbol was a mod that took the stock Kerbol system and rearranged it. I picked it up, updated it for recent versions of the game, and then wondered what would happen if Alternis were to smite the heck out of our solar system. You know, the one with Earth and Mars and stuff in it.

The mod requires Kopernicus to be installed. It does NOT require Real Solar System. It is based off of Real Solar System, and if RSS is installed alongside there will probably be big problems. The RSS-Textures included in the pack are 4096x scale. Feel free to reduce them to 2048 if you want to. All of the .dds textures are the same textures as the normal RSS-Textures, so you can replace them with whatever scale you want, and the .png textures (which are the different textures) can easily be edited so you can change their scale.

To install, download and install Kopernicus 0.5 or later, and place Alternis Solar System and RSS-Textures in GameData.

This mod is based on the following:

 

• RSS Planets and Moons Expanded by Pozine
• Real Solar System by NathanKell and others
• Alternis Kerbol by NovaSilisko (no actual assets from AK used, just the name and inspiration)
• Eudae55's Neptunian texture (edited to be red-brown instead of purple)

 

List of changes:

 

• Neptune moved to Mercury's orbit, Merucry now orbits Neptune.
• Venus is replaced by a slightly larger and warmer Mars.
• Earth's orbit is replaced with Jupiter.
• Jupiter has been blue-ified.
• Earth orbits Jupiter where Ganymede used to be.
• Venus orbits Jupiter where Europa used to be, and has been "terraformed."
• Moon orbits Jupiter where Callisto used to be.
• Io has not been changed, and still orbits Jupiter.
• Europa moved to where Mars was, and given a cold, thin atmosphere.
• Phobos and Deimos moved to Europa orbit.
• Ganymede orbits the Sun alone where Jupiter used to orbit.
• Saturn and Uranus are in a binary system. (not implemented yet with SigmaBinary.)
• Uranus orbits Saturn.
• Iapetus orbits Uranus.
• Callisto orbits Uranus.
• Titan orbits Saturn further out (will orbit the Saturn/Uranus barycenter) and has been made a super-Earth planet with 3.5 gees surface gravity and 4 times the size.
• Pluto not changed (though you could consider the unrealistic blue texture given it by RSS default as an alternis thing.)
• Lighting: Ambient light now nonexistent in space, dimmer on planet surfaces. Sun is slightly reddish-yellow and casts a harsh, warmer light.

 

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Edited December 1, 2015 by GregroxMun

[Sampa]

Looks intriguing

[tkw]

oh i just imagine this

this is awesome

Edited October 18, 2015 by tkw

[Garibaldi2257]

There are some problems with the Venus atmosphere not there so can you fix it?

Gregroxmun said it was a .01 alpha. there will be plenty of issues, such as missing atmospheres. How about you show a little patience and maybe thank the mod developers instead of giving one line bug reports that are useless and asking them to fix them immediately.

there are proper formats for bug reports, look them up, save the mod devs some time and provide some useful feedback so that they can make better mods instead of only thinking about yourself.

[Whirligig Girl]

Version 0.1 is released. Actually it has been for a while, I just forgot to post the forum thread.  The system is rather redesigned from alpha 0.01.

Edited December 1, 2015 by GregroxMun

[Mitchz95]

The terraformed Venus looks awesome. Any chance of a similar treatment for Mars? Even as an optional download?

Edited January 30, 2016 by Mitchz95

[The Minmus Derp]

Is this still being updated?