A Kerbal's Guide to our solar system

[Spearka]

may i also suggest renaming Xerxes to Hel

here\'s why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_%28location%29

a.k.a.it\'s cold and not a very good place to live in

[NovaSilisko]

hm, seeing as how it is now possible, can this be a plugin?

No. Can\'t add celestial bodies.

[SteevyT]

I think we need a planet that orbits the opposite direction from all the others (yes, I know this is basically impossible) for the ultimate landing challenge.

[NovaSilisko]

I think we need a planet that orbits the opposite direction from all the others (yes, I know this is basically impossible) for the ultimate landing challenge.

A distant-orbiting planet in an eccentric orbit would work, like it was captured from THE SPACE BEYOND SPACE

[Kinkajou]

A distant-orbiting planet in an eccentric orbit would work, like it was captured from THE SPACE BEYOND SPACE

It should be roughly 128 km radius and have an orbit around 9 billion km out (Periapsis), with an eccentricity of something like 0.256, and maybe an inclination of 10.42 degrees.

I will call it... Dizni

[Belkaland]

We need a binary planet system!

[ultrasquid]

We need a binary planet system!

You mean like Mandrake-Rutherford?

[Rascal Nag]

The Fire Star shows off its atmosphere composed mostly of sulfuric acid from volcanic outgassing:

Lakeshore on Eve:

Nova, is that an actual add-on made in SpaceEngine or just planets that looked similar?

Edit: Wait, disregard that, I see it is an actual system then. Awesome.

[mincespy]

Nova, is that an actual add-on made in SpaceEngine or just planets that looked similar?

Edit: Wait, disregard that, I see it is an actual system then. Awesome.

LARGE IMAGES!

A bit less with the quoting of the large images!

[aFlatRabbit]

These look really awesome I really hope they do get put into the game.

[NovaSilisko]

Space Engine rendition of Egar is complete:

[mincespy]

Space Engine rendition of Egar is complete:

Why can KSP not have such good graphics *cries*

[ultrasquid]

Why can KSP not have such good graphics *cries*

The new terrain engine just released in the 0.14.2/3 update has brought it much closer. It\'s still in alpha level development after all. Have patience, young padawan.

[NovaSilisko]

My hope is that we can get a more dynamic ambient light system - varying with a full mun/planet, as can be seen in the images I posted.

[cardgame]

The way KSP is going so far, I can say that those images look very close to what I imagine a future KSP will look like.

[Nooblet68]

Kerbin is beautiful as it is... The Mun? Not so much...

[NovaSilisko]

Fiddling around with Libnoise, made a nice heightmap:

[Aegrim]

Has somebody made the kerbal system in space engine? If so can they link the file in the OP please?

[NovaSilisko]

Has somebody made the kerbal system in space engine? If so can they link the file in the OP please?

You need to read some more ;P I\'m working on making it right now.

[ultrasquid]

The Kerbol system you made for Celestia works quite nicely once I figured out how to install it (something that is NOT very intuitive). Once you finish up the Space Engine version, I look forward to your update to that one too.

[Caleb1]

Yes. But it\'s prettier because it\'s purple.

Nice. Lol this looks really good.

[NovaSilisko]

Updated the first post for the umpteenth time. No download yet, though.

[VincentMcConnell]

Uhh... Nova... Write up a Resume and ask Harv if he\'s hiring... I don\'t know why you\'re not working as a dev...

Anyway, I hope ALL of this gets made because I can\'t wait to orbit over the liquid mercury oceans and land on the new moons and planets.

[Caleb1]

The way KSP is going so far, I can say that those images look very close to what I imagine a future KSP will look like.

To bad my pc can\'t Handel the graphics

[justinpatrick1011]

Planet\'s Picture? :sos: