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

[Valerian]

Downloading now. I've been wanting this as a stock feature since I started playing. But I'm happy to get it as a mod too!

Thanks for making this.

BTW, are you going to use AVC (Add-on Version Checker)? I like how it makes it super-easy to see which mods have updated versions.

Thank you.

Yes I had already planned to use it, too many things to do >_<

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So this effectively replaces AmbientLightShifter (not the one from Blizzy)?

Downloading now all the same, I lurve me some darkness in space.

Yes it does replace it.

[Frostiken]

So... is there a mod that makes dark sides darker too?

[Valerian]

So... is there a mod that makes dark sides darker too?

This mod does it too, I will try to make it clearer in the first post, you are not the first one to ask.

[Surefoot]

That is perfect, sir, have some rep

Is the new name of your mod in any case related to a cult album from Solar Fields ?

Edited October 15, 2014 by Surefoot

[Valerian]

That is perfect, sir, have some rep

Is the new name of your mod in any case related to a cult album from Solar Fields ?

Thank you!

No at all, it's related to the real word definition of "planetshine".

(I'm now listening to it, "Earthshine" by Solar Fields, thank you for the discovery! )

Edited October 15, 2014 by Valerian

[WarrenSchultz]

Looks great. Added the latest version to my mod tracking list.

(Earthshine is also a song by Rush

[Lunaran]

I want you to know, I love you.

I'm not sure I've ever really loved anyone appropriately. Just the way they made me feel, you know? Never a kind of true, selfless devotion to the total wellbeing of another person love. But you, I want you to have everything in life you want and always be happy.

I love you.

(downloading now)

[Valerian]

I want you to know, I love you.

I'm not sure I've ever really loved anyone appropriately. Just the way they made me feel, you know? Never a kind of true, selfless devotion to the total wellbeing of another person love. But you, I want you to have everything in life you want and always be happy.

I love you.

(downloading now)

Thank you lol, I love you too!

[Valerian]

Version 0.1.4 released with "KSP Add-on Version Checker" included: you won't need to manually check for updates anymore!

I plan to update it almost everyday for at least a week probably.

Could someone help me by explaining how I could implement a diffuse wrap shader for simulating an area light? I want to avoid using 3 lights for that.

[Ph34rb0t]

I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH YOUR RELEASE CYCLES!

Just kidding, keep at it!

[Hyomoto]

Hmm, glad to see this. I'm definitely giving it a try.

[Thourion]

Changelog:
V0.1.4 - 2014-10-15
- Added support for Add-on Version Checker and included "MiniAVC"
- Added minimal debug menu to toggle the effects (requires Toolbar)
- Performance improvement: forced vertex lights

Love these changes, both the MiniAVC, and the toggle thing, so i can check whats going on

[Lunaran]

Could someone help me by explaining how I could implement a diffuse wrap shader for simulating an area light? I want to avoid using 3 lights for that.

I hadn't looked into it at all yet but this was actually something I was going to try soon. My theory was use this trick and some code from the Reflective Surfaces mod to replace the base KSP shaders with versions that include an extra texture lookup for shine contribution.

I was going to use a 2D LUT with one axis as altitude and the other as (surfacenormal dot localgravityup) for the light contribution. That would let me spread it around the model proportional to how large the apparent angular size of the planet was, and how much atmosphere, if any, was around the ship. (since a dot product gives you a result from -1 to 1 if both vectors are normalized, you have information on light angle all the way around the model. shaders almost always throw away anything less than 0 because that's assumed to be in shadow, but we can exploit it for a cheap directional-area light effect.)

I knocked up a rough example for Kerbin:

Vertical axis is altitude, not to scale. The white tick at the midpoint represents 69km, the point at which ambient light would start to come from both below and above. Bottom of the image would be sea level, and the top of the image would be some arbitrary altitude (you use 4x planet radius which seems good).

Horizontal axis is just the contour of the model. Above the atmosphere, light only comes from below (left side of image), but the closer you get to sea level/the ground, the blue light would begin to come from above (farther to the right of center) and the light from below would become more earthy. I picked brown, but for most of Kerbin I guess it would either be green or dark ocean blue.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Lunaran
typed some more

[Lunaran]

The thing stopping me, of course, is that I'd have to replace (and therefore debug) every single shader with a diffuse component, of which there are several. But, it's doable. They're all pretty similar.

[smunisto]

Dropped by to say "Thank you" for the awesome mod!

[Jeroen D Stout]

The 2d look-up texture certainly should work.

You could probably get away with just having one texture for all planets that describes in RGB the amount of light from the ground, the atmosphere and heavenly objects. You could then use that to modulate either a fixed planet/atmosphere colour or per-planet ground colour texture.

EDIT: Though the different atmosphere densities may give a bit of a wonky result.

[Shurikeeen]

Does it work with RSS?

[skykooler]

How would you handle ambient sunrise/sunset lighting on or near the surface?

[Valerian]

Does it work with RSS?

It works, but not with the right colors.

I will soon release a color file for RSS, maybe in a few hours

[Valerian]

How would you handle ambient sunrise/sunset lighting on or near the surface?

I'm not sure, because I just realized that "vacuumAmbientColor" didn't work on the surface of planets with atmosphere, I will need to work a bit on it.

When I get it to work I will add sunrise and sunset ambient lights for sure, on the ground as well as in space.

[Arron Rift]

Does it affect moons? I mean does Kerbin's light hit Mun at all?

[Valerian]

Does it affect moons? I mean does Kerbin's light hit Mun at all?

Not yet, but it's on the planned features list

[Valerian]

Ok, this mod might get bigger than what I planned, it might completely handle all ambient lights, whatever the altitude, orbit or landed, and for the different times like sunrise and sunset. A full moon will illuminate the night, and no moon will mean pitch black.

[OrbitalSolutionsLtd]

O M G, you just made my day

[AetherGoddess]

how has this existed for so long and I've never seen it. GET INTO THAT GAMEDATA FOLDER.