PlutonianEmpire wrote:Mwahahahahahahahaaahh!!!!
Anyhoo, I made some changes to the solarsys.ssc in the data folder, which I think would be cool if it was included into the default solarsys.ssc that comes with Celestia when one installs the program.
Mercury is unchanged.
For venus, it currently comes in with its looking like this:
In the ssc, i changed the atmosphere color to (hopefully) reflect the real life venus a bit more, so it (the atmosphere) now appears dark orange. (no screenshot)
Earth: Currently, it comes in looking like this.
I switched it to have a different cloudmap, and a different nightmap (one that has the auroras in it), and i got rid of the ugly "pollution" (the grey or brown haze and clouds) so that it would appear a bit more like it does in real life. Notice the increased contrast between clouds and sea. I also changed the atmosphere and haze colors so that it appears less "polluted", and increased the height of the atmosphere from 60 to 62 & lowered the cloud layer to 6.2.
Yes, the name was changed as well (don't ask).
It sure looks better, doesn't it? To me, it seems a lot more...
natural.
Mars is fine, although you could make the haze color more reddish. And a good "dust storm" cloud map would be cool.
Jupiter is fine, save for the absence of a faint ring
For saturn, uranus, and neptune, i got rid of the haze(s) entirely, because it looked like i was looking at space probe pics of them. (you know that bluish haze that appears at the edges of the planets in the pics? those are optical effects caused by the camera and other equipment, i believe)
I gave pluto and charon more "realistic" textures, and also gave Pluto a thin atmosphere with a few clouds.
of course, the textures would all come in 1k and 2k packages, as always, and people could download bigger textures from the motherlode by themselves.
