[1.3.x-1.8.x] Real Expansion

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

UPDATE ON MOD'S STATUS 20/07/24

I do not really have any incentive to develop this mod anymore as I would like to focus on other projects.

For anyone looking for a mod that adds similar content, I highly recommend RSS-Origin by Charon_S. It adds a lot of the same content but at a significantly higher level of detail and fidelity and is also highly compatible with other content.

Thank you so much for the support I've had for this mod over the years!!!

Hi there, and welcome to the Real Enhancements development thread.

This mod aims to continue and expand pozine and imkSushi's Real Solar System Expanded mod. I plan to incorperate and restore the majority of objects in the mod

My aim is to create a modular experience, so people can download packages based on their interests and their ability.

I know this seems ambitious (especially RealStars, that one is going to take a while)

RESPOSITORY LINK (outdated): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oCeqlZ4fBs6TNvnN0R57TMqhKbSBVzzO?usp=sharing

Github: https://github.com/AR3S-Vega/RealExpansion/releases

It is recommended to install RealPatch to fix inclinations, other wise the inclinations of newer objects will be broken

Discord Server (because Kopernicus won't give me a channel): https://discord.gg/pWfYbfm

Requires:

Kopernicus

ModuleManager

ModularFlightIntegrator

RealSolarSystem

Skybox requires TextureReplacer

Catalog:

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The current packs considered are (Green for released, Blue for patching/testing, Yellow for working on/partially created, red for queued, brown for released but not updating, purple for outsourcing (someone else is working on). These are roughly in order of estimated difficulty)

QoQ stands for Quality over Quantity update, fixing stuff

RealSkybox (will add a 4k skybox of the Milky Way, from the suns perspective. Requires TextureReplacer)

RealPatches (will add things like rings, asteroid fields, better textures etc)

Works perfectly with SSRSS

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Things Added:

Ring Systems for Uranus, Neptune and Jupiter

and with the tilt'em support, a patch to fix the inclinations in RSS

Changed sun colours to more realistic

Todo:

Better PlanetShine patches

Tilt'em/pricinipa support for planets (we have the technology)

Changelog:

v1.3, QoQ update, fixing SOIs

v1.2, fixed sun colours to something more realisitc

v1.1, added better inclinations

v1.0, Initial Release, added rings for Neptune and Uranus

RealHistory (will add the solar system 3 byo)

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Nothing to see here so far. Looking for suggestions

RealFuture(will add the Solar System after 7.5 billion years)

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"War is all around
I'm growing tired to fighting
I've been drained and I can't hide it"

-Aftermath, Drones, Muse

Nothing to see here so far. Looking for suggestions

RealNEOs (will add large asteroids posing a threat to Earth in real life and other objects that orbit close to Earth such as Cruithne)

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Things added

Cruithne

Apophis

2001 WN5

Duedne

Todo:

Bennu

Ryugu

Eros

Mathilde

Itokawa

Changelog:

v1.1, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.0, initial release, added Cruithne, Apophis, 2001 WN5, Duedne

RealApollos (Formerly RealHeat, will add stuff inside of Earth's orbit)

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Things added:

2005 HC4 (this one... my god)

Phaethon

Atira

Aten

Ra-Shalom

Talos

Icarus

v1.1, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.0, initial release, adds 2005 HC4, Phaethon, Atira, Aten, Ra-Shalom, Talos, Icarus

RealAsteroids (adds asteroid belt stuff)

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Things Added:

Juno

Pallas

Ida

Dactyl

Todo:

Eros

Gaspra

Lutetia

Mathilde

Changelog:

v1.2 QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.1, rezipped with only the textures needed

v1.0 Initial Release, added Juno, Pallas, Ida, Dactyl

RealMoons (will add more planet moons)

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Things added (i should really make the other lists bigger :P):

Metis

Adrastea

Amalthea

Pan

Daphnis

Hyperion

Phoebe

Pandora

Prometheus

Epimetheus

Janus

Proteus

(im putting pluto moons in this)

Styx

Nix

Kerberos

Hydra

Todo:

Jupiter Moons:

Thebe

Pasiphae

Himalia

Elara

Uranus Moons:

Sycorax

Puck

Portia

Neptune Moons:

Nereid

Larissa

Galatea

Changelog:

v1.3, fixed majority of textures, fixed more SOIs

v1.2, unknown. It was more than a year when I made it and I forgot what I added

v1.1, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.0, Intial Release, added lots of stuff

RealTNOs (will add trans neptunian objects such as Eris, Makemake)

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Chariklo

Makemake

Eris

Dysmonia

Haumea

Hi'iaki

Namaka

Quaour

Weywot

2007 OR10

Orcus

Vanth

Changelog:

v1.3, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.2, new textures for Eris, Dysmonia, Haumea,  2007OR10, actually fixed Haumea rings

v1.1.1, fixed Haumea rings (do i didn't cus i am dumb)

v1.1, added Quaour, Weywot, 2007OR10, Haumea with rings and moons (Namaka and Hi'iaka), Eris and Dysmonia

v1.0, initial release, added Chariklo, Makemake, Orcus, Vanth

RealHypotheticals (hol up, adds Planet Nine (ice giant) and Planet Ten (Mars Sized) in the cold extreme distances of the solar system. Will have other optional planets from theories, either proven wrong or still searching)

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Things Added:

Neith, a moon of Venus

Liber, a the 5 nice planet model gas giant

Todo List:

Planet Nine

a few moonlets from the Oort Cloud

rings made of a destroyed comet

Planet Ten

Vulcan

RealComets

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Things Added:

67P

Halley

Hale-Bopp

Encke

'Oumuamua! Will be put in an escape trajectory of the Sun, so you have to get to it before time runs out

Chiron

v1.1, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.0.1, fixed Hale-Bopp being inside Chiron

v1.0, intial release, added 67P, Halley, Hale-Bopp, Encke, 'Oumuamua, Chiron

RealETNO (real extreme trans neptunian objects, adds 'Sednoids'. Made for RSS/RO Experts)

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Things Added:

Sedna

2012 VP 113 (Biden)

2015 TG 287 (Goblin)

2014 FE 73 (That's gonna be challenging)

Ceto

Phorcys

2017 MB 7 (you gonna cry?)

v1.1, QoQ update, fixed SOIs

v1.0, initial released, added Senda, Biden, Goblin, 2014 FE73, Ceto, Phorcys, 2017 MB7

RealStars (bad version of RealExoplanets adding what it didn't, like Proxima Centauri b, Barnard's Star, Epsilon Eridani. This will come when i've completed the normal system, will require RealExoplanets. Made for RSS/RO GODS)

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Things added (this ones long so it may take a while to make in full. Most are just ideas of things to put in. don't expect everything:

Proxima Centauri b

Barnard's Star + b

Luhman 16

WISE 0855-0714

Epsilon Eridani + b (or Aegir)

Wolf 359

Fomalhaut and b (or Dagon)

Pollux + b (or Thestias)

55 Cancri + planets (Galileo, Brahe, Lipperhey, Janssen, Harriot)

Lalande 21185

Procyon

Luyten's Star

Teegarden's Star

Kapteyn's Star

TRAPPIST-1 and planets

Kepler-90 and planets

HD 10180 and planets

HR 8832 and planets

HD 40307 and planets

HD 3445 and planets

PSR B1257+12 or "Lich", with Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor

 

As i said i wanted the mod to be modular, and you will be able to download each package individually. So if you are less experienced with RSS/RO you can download the NEO package, and if you want a challenge you could download Stars or ExtremeTransNeptunian objects

Things i want to add (yeah i stole this image from imkSushi's thread)

Current Status: Abandoned

Credits:

Me ("Our Benefactors") for doing something

@Xurkitree for help with Kopernicus and RealAftermath

@Noah the Smol and @GurrenLagannCWP (if I have the right accounts :P, most of the discussions have been done on discord) for working on RealHypotheticals

pozine for making RSS Expanded in the first place

imkSushi for restoring RSS Expanded

NathanKell for Real Solar System

AndrewDraws for RealExoplanets

Gregrox for letting me use his sunflare

TSMP for Kopernicus

Squad for KSP

imkSushi's old thread:

pozine's old thread:

This mod is licensed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Edited July 20 by SystemPlanningCorporation
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[Emperor of Ilve]

First

[Heirloom]

Give it the same license as the other versions of the mod (so CC-BY)

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

18 hours ago, Emperor of Ilve said:

First

 

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

v1.0 of RealAsteroids has been released, also a link to the respository

Also could a moderator move this to Addon Releases? thanks in advance.

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

v1.1 of RealAsteroids Released, fixing texture folder

v1.0 of RealMoons Released

v1.0 of RealPatch Released

Also just realised that my textures folder has the same name as RealExoplanets, this was purely accidental. smh...

Edited May 18, 2019 by "Our Benefactors"

[Standecco]

I love this! Especially RealAsteroids and RSS patches, which I'm definitely going to try. But a few questions have come to my mind: will this ever support Principia? How would you get to those very far planets? Is KSPIE a non-official requirement?

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

1 hour ago, Standecco said:

I love this! Especially RealAsteroids and RSS patches, which I'm definitely going to try. But a few questions have come to my mind: will this ever support Principia? How would you get to those very far planets? Is KSPIE a non-official requirement?

Thanks!

To answer your questions:

Yes, Principia support is coming. It will come with RealPatch, and other configs will come with any other packages

Honestly, i have no idea how to get to the further planets. It is entirely possible with stock, but would require thousands, maybe millions of parts and unless you are using summit, it will be the slowest thing ive ever seen. To answer your question, you could get to the very far planets with great difficulty or mods

I mean, i guess the modpack is up to the user. Use it if you want. It isnt directly required, but recommended

[Standecco]

1 hour ago, "Our Benefactors" said:

Thanks!

To answer your questions:

Yes, Principia support is coming. It will come with RealPatch, and other configs will come with any other packages

Honestly, i have no idea how to get to the further planets. It is entirely possible with stock, but would require thousands, maybe millions of parts and unless you are using summit, it will be the slowest thing ive ever seen. To answer your question, you could get to the very far planets with great difficulty or mods

I mean, i guess the modpack is up to the user. Use it if you want. It isnt directly required, but recommended

Nice, good thing about principia support! Just an issue though, the RealMoons zip seems to be empty.

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Just now, Standecco said:

Nice, good thing about principia support! Just an issue though, the RealMoons zip seems to be empty.

So it is. Managed to recover the files as i deleted them. Reformatted them, now testing. It should be back up in 10ish mins. I'm sorry for this, i didnt realise. Thanks for notifying me.

Edited May 18, 2019 by "Our Benefactors"

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

There we go. Uploaded it

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

RealETNOs is out

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Just realised that Hale-Bopp is inside Chiron . Will fix in RealComets v1.0.1

 

[halleyyy]

can Gurren and I have credit for part of the team @"Our Benefactors"

[FreeThinker]

Looks realy promising, can wait!

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

14 hours ago, Noah the Smol said:

can Gurren and I have credit for part of the team @"Our Benefactors"

Yeah will do

8 hours ago, FreeThinker said:

Looks realy promising, can wait!

Well the majority of it is out. Enjoy!

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Epsilon Eridani b

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Spent a few days also experimenting with Brown Dwarfs.

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

https://www.strawpoll.me/18058270

Poll

[hypervelocity]

I have been wanting/waiting for this for a long time! Many many thanks for this, will try it out as soon as I get some time!

also, is that a reference to J.L.Borges?

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

1 minute ago, hypervelocity said:

I have been wanting/waiting for this for a long time! Many many thanks for this, will try it out as soon as I get some time!

also, is that a reference to J.L.Borges?

My username? No, it's a reference to Half-Life 2, in which the antagonists are refered to as our benefactors.

I warn you that the mod is still in testing, and many textures are temporary. So don't worry if you see the odd SpaceEngine texture

[hypervelocity]

I fully got the HL2 reference, in reality I was referring to the "Aleph Universe" you got there quoted in your location

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)

Anyhow, thanks for the mod disclaimer! Will follow the development

Edited May 26, 2019 by hypervelocity

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Just now, hypervelocity said:

I fully got the HL2 reference, in reality I was referring to the "Aleph Universe" you got there quoted in your location

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)

Again, HL2. The Combine Borderworld is refered to as the Aleph Universe

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Combine_Overworld

[SystemPlanningCorporation]

Might as well have a small dev update, still fiddling with textures for TRAPPIST-1

[Gordon Dry]

@"Our Benefactors" @linuxgurugamer

Resonant Orbit Calculator cache files for this mod:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rrq4zu7c6ehx0bp/AAD3ERYFBWiVgPKBHhuYGnEKa?dl=1

Why do I post this?

Because with Kopernicus useOnDemand = true all cache files are black.
So I created them.

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Disable Kopernicus onDemand where you find it:
    %useOnDemand = False
    %useManualMemoryManagement = False

Don't forget to reenable it after the testing.

Delete the files in
GameData\ResonantOrbitCalculator\PluginData\Cache\
then start the game one time.
Get to the Main Menu, wait a minute and then exit the game.

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The cache files will not be overwritten once created, so you could set up a test install with only the planets, make a backup of the created cache and then copy the cache directly over on reinstalling the mod.

You need at least:

000_ClickThroughBlocker\
001_ToolbarControl\
CTTP\
EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements\
Kopernicus\
ModularFlightIntegrator\
ResonantOrbitCalculator\
Squad\

plus everything what belongs to the planet pack, like for example for RSS with RSSVE:
KSCSwitcher\
RealSolarSystem\
RSSDateTime\
RSS-Textures\
RSSVE\