[1.2] PlanetShine - v0.2.5.2 stable - v0.5 experimental [4 October 2016]

[Valerian]

Yes , just it seems not everyone agree with the star's name, so kerbol, kerstar, starker, starbol, whatever, it's a star at the first place .

Sunshine... one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made !

The effect could be an option of the plug-in too.

Don't worry you will be overwhelmed by options soon .

And it's officially Kerbol (it really sounds like a Breton word).

Edited October 12, 2014 by Valerian

[Valerian]

After reading that, I think planet light should definitely get reflected on the moons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetshine

And I might rename the mod too Either to Albedo or Planetshine, but the current name makes the purpose of the mod clearer.

[bakedbattlestar]

works great for 0.25. Thanks for you work!

[diomedea]

Really happy to see this add-on, and the enthusiatic appreciation by all. I'm also going to install it with 0.25.

[CaptRobau]

Here's an album with before and after shots. Feel free to use it for the first post OP.

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For some reason Eve's terrain was fuzzy even though the settings did not change between the screenshots.

Edited October 12, 2014 by CaptRobau

[Valerian]

Here's an album with before and after shots. Feel free to use it for the first post OP.

http://imgur.com/a/Nekay

For some reason Eve's terrain was fuzzy even though the settings did not change between the screenshots.

Thank you for that!

I just saw your post on Reddit, I guess I was not fast enough .

[CaptainKipard]

Thanks. I can't test it, but the screenshots and comparisons look really well.

Will you be developing this further? KSC and other light sources on the planet could make use of this too.

[Valerian]

Thanks. I can't test it, but the screenshots and comparisons look really well.

Will you be developing this further? KSC and other light sources on the planet could make use of this too.

It's the very early release of this mod, which I made over the weekend, as my very first mod: of course I will be developing it much further

What do you have in mind exactly? Now that I feel much more comfortable with Vector3 and Quaternion, I'm up for bigger challenges ^^

[Astronomer]

I legit MLG 360 noscoped the screen when I first saw this.

10/10 It's okay.

[Lilleman]

I use it since yesterday, it looks great (didn't noticed anything unusual, nor any artifacts)! Well done!

This will become a must-have mod real quick.

[CaptRobau]

Thank you for that!

I just saw your post on Reddit, I guess I was not fast enough .

You're welcome. After making the comparison pictures I just can't go back to the old way.

[Duxwing]

Reflective Ambient Light made KSP crash on my x64 build: would you like any crash files?

-Duxwing

[TeeGee]

Great mod but I don't really notice any of the reflective ambient light on my craft when I tried it out today.

[kujuman]

Enjoying the mod so far. I looked at the code to try and answer this question, but I can't follow vector transforms at all

Is the light color based at all on the average color of the terrain below or is it a simple color per planet? Kerbin is really the only body that multiple colors makes sense for: blue for over the oceans, green/yellow over land, white over the poles. I figure that actually sampling the color of the terrain would be and expensive operation, but perhaps simple bitmaps (like for biomes) could give a cheap lookup based on lat/lon.

[Valerian]

Enjoying the mod so far. I looked at the code to try and answer this question, but I can't follow vector transforms at all

Is the light color based at all on the average color of the terrain below or is it a simple color per planet? Kerbin is really the only body that multiple colors makes sense for: blue for over the oceans, green/yellow over land, white over the poles. I figure that actually sampling the color of the terrain would be and expensive operation, but perhaps simple bitmaps (like for biomes) could give a cheap lookup based on lat/lon.

Currently it's using a list of colors in a config file, but I like your idea, I think it might be possible to get the color directly from the rendered surface, with a virtual camera or something maybe.

[Valerian]

I legit MLG 360 noscoped the screen when I first saw this.

10/10 It's okay.

Thank you!

I might ask for a bit of your help later, I want to make it work with your auroras too, but I need to check if it would be any realistic, maybe only by night?.

[panfish5]

I cried tears of joy when I saw this. On another note I have a new indoor pool!

[kujuman]

Currently it's using a list of colors in a config file, but I like your idea, I think it might be possible to get the color directly from the rendered surface, with a virtual camera or something maybe.

Ohh, that would allow for automatic lighting on custom planets (I dunno if those are still being supported or not) and work for cloud mods too I reckon.

If you wanted to look at the static bitmap lookup, here's Harv's post when biomes were being developed which explains a bit of the backend. [EDIT] looking at the CBAttribute, you couldn't use it directly to get a color, but there are mods that get a color from a bitmap I believe.[/edit] A very very blurred map of the bodies that warrant it (kerbin/duna) can average a large area of color for very little CPU use if you want to have a backup system.

Edited October 12, 2014 by kujuman

[Ippo]

Hey, just dropping by to say that this is awesome and really adds to the immersion

Just a quick remark: I think that the coloured reflection starts a little early, on Kerbin it becomes very visible around 30 kms, which looks a little bit early to me. But maybe it's just my taste...

[Ledenko]

Wow, it's amazing how much this mod adds to the atmosphere, kudos!

[Valerian]

Hey, just dropping by to say that this is awesome and really adds to the immersion

Just a quick remark: I think that the coloured reflection starts a little early, on Kerbin it becomes very visible around 30 kms, which looks a little bit early to me. But maybe it's just my taste...

Thank you for the feedback, currently I'm mostly testing in lower and upper space, for the atmosphere I will wait until I add an in-game UI to tweak settings and find the best numbers

[CaptainKipard]

What do you have in mind exactly?

I mean do the same thing you did for planets, except do it for proximity to the KSC.

[problemecium]

My eyes! They won't go back inside my head because they're too busy drooling all over those screenshots.

[MOARdV]

I found one interesting interaction with this mod ... the planets from Distant Objects Mod are affected by the "reflected" light. Follow a ship around Kerbin, and watch some of the Distant Object planet impostors, and they become much brighter about the same time the ship you're flying reaches daylight. It's not a big deal to me, but it took me a few orbits to figure out why the other planets kept getting brighter and dimmer.

[Valerian]

I found one interesting interaction with this mod ... the planets from Distant Objects Mod are affected by the "reflected" light. Follow a ship around Kerbin, and watch some of the Distant Object planet impostors, and they become much brighter about the same time the ship you're flying reaches daylight. It's not a big deal to me, but it took me a few orbits to figure out why the other planets kept getting brighter and dimmer.

interesting ...

Currently I'm using directional lights on all the scene, on layer 0. Maybe I could use spots closer to the ship, in order to avoid such an issue. I will check where Distant Object sprites are in the space.