The stars of Kerbin's sky

[soldieroffilth]

What if space in KSP reacted like space IRL and went pitch black when the player was in sunlight?

[cantab]

That's not a reaction of space, that's a reaction of your eyes or an autoexposing camera.

A camera could perfectly well show the background stars provided it wasn't aimed right at the Sun, but it would overexpose the sunlit spacecraft in doing so. Conversely if the spacecraft was exposed right, the background stars would be invisible. To be honest, neither should be in KSP; the former would look awful and probably be mistaken for a bug, the latter would make people thing there was no stellar background at all. In any case, "high dynamic range" methods could get round the issue.

We do at present get the stars heavily washed out if the Sun is in direct view, which is sensible enough.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

There is a mod for this. Let me check

THERE YOU GO!

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/69907-0-23-Distant-Object-Enhancement-v1-3-Planets-satellites-in-the-night-sky!-(3-3)?highlight=stars

Edited April 6, 2014 by MalfunctionM1Ke

[soldieroffilth]

I am aware of light does when the human eye reacts to it. My statement was in regards to how it would happen inside of the game engine. Simply changing the skybox of the environment based on certain conditions.

[Vanamonde]

Moved to suggestins/discussions.