A Kerbal's Guide to our solar system

[Douglasdtlltd]

I have this feeling that modeling rings in a good way will be very, very hard for the engine... hope Harv finds a way, obviously.

Same way he does the sun, use a picture file, like a png. Derp.

[thorfinn]

Same way he does the sun, use a picture file, like a png. Derp.

While flying through them?

[NovaSilisko]

Just use a similar rendering system for clouds. A color map and an alpha map. But instead of cloud particles, make them look like millions of motes of dust (thousands per texture/sprite, mind you. We don\'t need to render millions of particles)

Also

[Guest ThatCrazyPilot]

Also

Death star

[mincespy]

I have this feeling that modeling rings in a good way will be very, very hard for the engine... hope Harv finds a way, obviously.

How about, when you\'re far away from the ring, It\'s just an image, but when you get close to a part of it, that part spawns asteroids/rocks (That\'s what the ring is made out of) Also, naturally, the asteroids will only render when you go near them and unrender when you go away from them. They\'ll also be on tracks. This reduces lag.

[Spoot Knight]

Whatever that blue ring is, I want to see something like that in the game.

And I want to fly stuff there too.

[Guest ThatCrazyPilot]

Whatever that blue ring is, I want to see something like that in the game.

And I want to fly stuff there too.

[manuelasa1999]

Faz is very, very lumpy.

This is KSP. Where can i download??

[Capt'n Skunky]

manuelasa1999, that\'s not KSP. Orbiter would be my guess.

Whatever that blue ring is, I want to see something like that in the game.

That looks like an aurora as seen from space.

Arrr!

Capt\'n Skunky

[trbinsc]

manuelasa1999, that\'s not KSP. Orbiter would be my guess.

I\'m pretty sure that that\'s celestia.

[Guest ThatCrazyPilot]

This is KSP. Where can i download??

Celestia, a crappy program from the 00\'s

[FiahOwl]

I\'m pretty sure that that\'s celestia.

Yup.

[xzbobzx]

I\'m pretty sure that that\'s celestia.

Nah man, nova is so awesome that he just creates an actual new solar system thing and then goes there on his holiday break to take pictures.

At least that\'s what I do.

[FiahOwl]

Wouldn\'t Jall and Eve be a bit orangish from Kerbol?

First pic: Jall

Second pic: Me putting Jall on an eccentric orbit.

[FiahOwl]

Nah man, nova is so awesome that he just creates an actual new solar system thing and then goes there on his holiday break to take pictures.

At least that\'s what I do.

Yeah, I heard James Cameron went over the the Rigel Kentaurus A system to shoot Avatar.

[xzbobzx]

Yeah, I heard James Cameron went over the the Rigel Kentaurus A system to shoot Avatar.

I do wonder where they found an earth earth enough to shoot 2012.

[FiahOwl]

I do wonder where they found an earth earth enough to shoot 2012.

I think Slartibartfast made one for them.

[xzbobzx]

I think Slartibartfast made one for them.

We\'ve got a challenger.

[NovaSilisko]

Celestia, a crappy program from the 00\'s

I don\'t like you, Aldrin man. You continue to insult the REAL Buzz...

[Douglasdtlltd]

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[CarolRawley]

I think Slartibartfast made one for them.

Yeah, I bet he won another award for fjords.

[NovaSilisko]

First post updated with beginnings of the new guide!

[Technical Ben]

Where the old pictures go?!?!

[NovaSilisko]

Where the old pictures go?!?!

They\'re dead. Funeral will be held after Kim Jong-Il\'s.

[Sbowyer28]

Tiberius

The second planet out is covered in a thick, cloudless atmosphere, which is continually being blasted out to space by the solar wind, but is mysteriously replenished.

It has one moon, a tiny rock named Kora.

Physical Characteristics:

• 
  [li]Radius: 380 km[/li]
  [li]Rotation Period: 3 hours[/li]
  [li]Atmospheric Composition: Unknown, likely Nitrogen.[/li]
  [li]Surface Composition: Primarily Silicates, Iron Core[/li]
  [li]Surface Gravity: 0.4g[/li]
  

Orbital characteristics:

• 
  [li]Period: 40 days [/li]
  [li]Semi-Major Axis: 0.05 AU[/li]
  [li]Eccentricity: 0.1[/li]
  [li]Inclination: 0[/li]

Reminds me of mars...