[1.6.1 | 1.5.1 | 1.4.5 | 1.3.1] The World Beyond Development Thread [v1.1.1 - 2018-10-31]

[Poodmund]

Ignore this post if you are, but for your bodies with liquid seas/oceans are you including a Land Mask in your Alpha Channel of the main colour map texture (land as solid black, liquid as solid white)?

i.e. http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/support/global12.gif

Edited January 1, 2018 by Poodmund

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/1/2018 at 11:12 AM, Poodmund said:

Ignore this post if you are, but for your bodies with liquid seas/oceans are you including a Land Mask in your Alpha Channel of the main colour map texture (land as solid black, liquid as solid white)?

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I don't exactly have masks for colormaps themselves (or maybe I do and I just don't know that exact term)

but yes, the lands have no alpha and only oceans have alpha, so if viewed directly from a image viewer, lands will be all black.

[Galileo]

  On 1/1/2018 at 6:35 PM, TheProtagonists said:

I don't exactly have masks for colormaps themselves (or maybe I do and I just don't know that exact term)

but yes, the lands have no alpha and only oceans have alpha, so if viewed directly from a image viewer, lands will be all black.

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I’m confused by this. You WANT your lands to be black?

You want your land masses in your textures to have transparency while your ocean is completely opaque, resulting in shiny oceans and matte land masses when seen in KSP. That’s what poodmund is trying to say.

 

 

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/2/2018 at 4:05 PM, Galileo said:

I’m confused by this. You WANT your lands to be black?

You want your land masses in your textures to have transparency while your ocean is completely opaque, resulting in shiny oceans and matte land masses when seen in KSP. That’s what poodmund is trying to say.

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Well... that is what I'm trying to say

But the background of my image viewer is black so I mistook that as the color, and the landmasses are actually transparent

[TheProtagonists]

Rolling out all the moons of Shima in a while...

Here are the first two:

Pooh - a forest world, except that there are no terrain scatters right now so no actual trees...

 

Cranell - a sub-habitable world with a cool symbol shaped on it

^{except that this symbol serves nothing but a unique biome because it's just a cool photoshop brush I found}

[Greatness101]

  On 1/5/2018 at 4:49 AM, TheProtagonists said:

Cranell - a sub-habitable world with a cool symbol shaped on it

^{except that this symbol serves nothing but a unique biome because it's just a cool photoshop brush I found}

 

 

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That formation... ALIENS!

Also "sub-habitable"

Looks like someone's read the Habitability Index I wrote on the KSS Wiki

Edited January 5, 2018 by Greatness101

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/5/2018 at 5:00 AM, Greatness101 said:

Also "sub-habitable"

Looks like someone's read the Habitability Index I wrote on the KSS Wiki

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I confess that I go to the KSS wiki at least once every two days...

_{^{Oh wow, some new pages have been added... Good... This pleases me}}

[TheProtagonists]

The rest two moons of Shima are done!

Porter - one of the few places in the Traverse system without Oxygen

really like how this one turned out

 

Young - this would be impossible to make without NASA's super high definition terrains

[TheProtagonists]

A small update:

The submoon of Young - Perry

_{^{note: it's name and appearance should bear no resemblance to anything whatsoever that come cross your mind}}

[TheProtagonists]

A slightly larger update:

the second and final planet of Ascension - Harmony

I insist those interesting colors are in fact, plants and other extremophiles

[TheProtagonists]

New archipelago planet - Promise

Because ocean planets are a bit boring without scatterer

 

Promise's very special moon - Raem

it's pink...

it's blue...

IT'S ACTUALLY BOTH?!

[EricL]

This mod is turning into spaceplane heaven now, is it? Literally a treasure trove of habitable planets

[JadeOfMaar]

  On 1/7/2018 at 5:30 PM, EricL said:

This mod is turning into spaceplane heaven now, is it? Literally a treasure trove of habitable planets

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That should be common knowledge already.  There are so many Kerbin-like bodies it should be cause for concern.

[MarethyuGamer]

  On 1/7/2018 at 8:40 PM, JadeOfMaar said:

That should be common knowledge already.  There are so many Kerbin-like bodies it should be cause for concern.

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It would be a cause  for concern to me if it was at the cost of worse non-habitable planets, but... Just look at this adorable, pastel navball floating through space :3

[Greatness101]

  On 1/7/2018 at 8:40 PM, JadeOfMaar said:

That should be common knowledge already.  There are so many Kerbin-like bodies it should be cause for concern.

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This planet pack already has almost as many habitable bodies as KSS, and KSS has a lot of habitable bodies.

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/7/2018 at 5:30 PM, EricL said:

This mod is turning into spaceplane heaven now, is it? Literally a treasure trove of habitable planets

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  On 1/7/2018 at 8:40 PM, JadeOfMaar said:

That should be common knowledge already.  There are so many Kerbin-like bodies it should be cause for concern.

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That's sort of the point the Traverse System exists

So I can eventually make a storyline that is a poorly disguised excuse on why there are so many Kerbin-like/Terra/Habitable/Friendly/Whateveryoucallit worlds

[TheProtagonists]

Now for something not so different

Brynhildr - the first of the continental worlds cluster

 

So now I'll have to think about making the rest 10+ Kerbin-like planets stand out...

[TheProtagonists]

Being extremely indecisive, I just completely remade Nyarlathotep

 

In other news, I don't expect a lot of screenshots to be made, as I'm planning to get all the heightmaps of the rest 10+ bodies done before applying color...

[TheProtagonists]

Annnnnd... that's the last one...

All 83 heightmaps are finally finished!

and only about 20 of them need to be colored!...

_{^{if you squint really hard you might be able to image what they look like}}

[Galileo]

  On 1/17/2018 at 4:08 AM, TheProtagonists said:

Annnnnd... that's the last one...

All 83 heightmaps are finally finished!

and only about 20 of them need to be colored!...

_{^{if you squint really hard you might be able to image what they look like}}

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I can barely see them, but I did notice you made the height maps with the white polar caps still there? Won’t your polar caps now be super tall on the surface?   I did that once and it turned out pretty awful and yours are very bright. I suspect they are really tall.

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/17/2018 at 4:15 AM, Galileo said:

I can barely see them, but I did notice you made the height maps with the white polar caps still there? Won’t your polar caps now be super tall on the surface?   I did that once and it turned out pretty awful and yours are very bright. I suspect they are really tall.

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hmmm... that's a good point that I somehow didn't take into consideration...

But it doesn't seems to be that catastrophic and I should be able to fix them without a lot of changes.

That will be done, and thank you for pointing it out!

[Emperor of Ilve]

When will this be avalible

I'm Exited

I have been looking for good mods that add solar systems

[TheProtagonists]

  On 1/17/2018 at 3:08 PM, Jeb's Pirotecnics Guy said:

When will this be avalible

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Coming soon^TM before:

Valve releases something with "3" in it

Firefly Season 2

Intel names a architecture without the word "Lake"

Your favorite anime gets season 3

Bitcoin crashes and goes up again to six figures

The Rapture

Heat death of the universe

[Emperor of Ilve]

  On 1/17/2018 at 4:50 PM, TheProtagonists said:

Coming soon^TM before:

Valve releases something with "3" in it

Firefly Season 2

Intel names a architecture without the word "Lake"

Your favorite anime gets season 3

Bitcoin crashes and goes up again to six figures

The Rapture

Heat death of the universe

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So

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Years from now

Edited January 17, 2018 by Jeb's Fireworks Guy

[Galileo]

  On 1/17/2018 at 5:00 PM, Jeb's Pirotecnics Guy said:

So

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Years from now

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Give or take a few hours.