[PLUGIN][ALPHA-10] City Lights and Clouds on Kerbin/Others

[rbray89]

so we just put the game data folder in the root ksp folder right?

Yup. Should be really simple.

[Superfluous J]

Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us.

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived thereâ€â€on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

--Carl Sagan

Edited October 16, 2013 by 5thHorseman

[briansun1]

is it just clouds right now? because I can't seem to see any lights

[rbray89]

There should be lights on the "night side" of kerbin... You have to be at least 75km up or in map view to see it.

[rbray89]

Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us.

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived thereâ€â€on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Nice. :-) attribute?

[skykooler]

Nice. :-) attribute?

It's from Carl Sagan's

[Superfluous J]

Nice. :-) attribute?

Oh! I thought I put that on there, though I would hope anybody here would know who said it

[Bobhendly]

Is this 0.22 Compatible?

[briansun1]

probably there weren't any huge game changes

[BFGfreak]

It seems to be running just fine on my install..

[Whirligig Girl]

could the static retrograde clouds be replaced with a real time loop of Earth's clouds in an animation?

[rbray89]

could the static retrograde clouds be replaced with a real time loop of Earth's clouds in an animation?

Hmm.... It would be less of an animation, and more of texture replacement every minute or so... Neat idea, but I would hate to be dependent on an internet connection to a site somewhere. I'm working on making the cloud cover more realistic.

[rbray89]

It seems to be running just fine on my install..

*FEW*. I was worried I would have to put out a new emergency release. Juggling work/life/hobbies can be difficult sometimes.

[Leberschnitzel]

It still looks as if the lights are hovering in mid air though

[rbray89]

It still looks as if the lights are hovering in mid air though

Yeah, and unfortunately there isn't much of a way around it. I will be working on having it appear in higher altitude, and having higher resolution lighting before, so it will look like you are actually flying above a city.

Right now, I'm trying to get clouds to work "right" when on the ground viewing up.

[NathanKell]

Right now, I'm trying to get clouds to work "right" when on the ground viewing up.

This is what I'm waiting for, oh yes.

[rbray89]

This is what I'm waiting for, oh yes.

Check it out... you will have to let me know what you think.

[tygoo7]

Check it out... you will have to let me know what you think.

Its awesome but there are two bugs I found. 1. There are diamonds or something in the sky that show only the original sky. 2. The lights still look like they are floating. Other than that I think it looks amazing!

[XNerd_Bomber]

Can you see if you can add a cool effect as the ship passes through the cloud layer? Kind of like what happens when you break mach 1 in the game?

[razark]

It looks like the clouds are pasted onto the top of the atmosphere, which causes an odd effect. It's as though there's a "ghost" planet that's visible at the horizon.

[rbray89]

Its awesome but there are two bugs I found. 1. There are diamonds or something in the sky that show only the original sky. 2. The lights still look like they are floating. Other than that I think it looks amazing!

Weird... I'll have to dig into this one.

[rbray89]

Can you see if you can add a cool effect as the ship passes through the cloud layer? Kind of like what happens when you break mach 1 in the game?

Eventually there will be volumetric clouds that you will be able to fly through. Now that I have started working on this, I am thinking that I may want to add wind/rain/fog/ etc as weather patterns. But don't hold me to it.

[rbray89]

It looks like the clouds are pasted onto the top of the atmosphere, which causes an odd effect. It's as though there's a "ghost" planet that's visible at the horizon.

Can you post a picture outlining what it is you don't like? I think I know what you are talking about, and I am still toying with shaders to get everything to look as nice as I can.

[razark]

Can you post a picture outlining what it is you don't like?

Let's see if this works:

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If you look just around the planet, you can see a darker band, with the clouds visible within it. It is most obvious where it crosses the brighter "galactic plane" area.

[NathanKell]

What altitude are the clouds? Can you make them only about 3000m up, a good average of cloud heights? That might help with the issue razark is talking about.

And, you asked what I think: incredible. Utterly incredible.