MrSpace43's Exoplanet Addons

[MrSpace43]

Once I get a new PC and have everything from my old PC transferred to it, I really should get to updating a few of these addons that don't really live up to my standards now. Here are the ones I was thinking of and the updates they will have:

Kepler-62:
-Kepler-62 f will now use the official NASA texture, and the other planets will have theirs updated so some look less "procedural" (referring to 62d, 62e).

Gliese 581:
-Gliese 581 c will now be a Super-Venus Mini-Neptune instead of a water world, and the other planets will receive better textures.

Kepler-37:
-Again, new textures that better resemble the official impressions.

Kepler-1647:
-Brand new texture that likely will use acrylic pour.

Kepler-69:
-Like Gliese 581 c, Kepler-69 c will be made into a Super-Venus given recent data, and 69b will be updated to look more realistic.

51 Pegasi b:
-Will update the texture to probably one of cubic's.

Kepler-90:
-New textures so everything looks realistic. Acrylic pour will be used for Kepler-90g and 90h (and maybe 90d-90f?).

HD 189733 Ab:
-Texture will be re-upscaled to 4k.

Systems or exoplanets with their names in bold mean I'd made progress on updating them, but due to the dilemma, they've been put on hold for now.

[trappistplanets]

-New textures so everything looks realistic. Acrylic pour will be used for Kepler-90g and 90h (and maybe 90d-90f?).

by realistic you mean more realistic looking textures (ie your acrylic gas planets) or do you mean a more acccurate whole system like how i approached Kepler-90 (see here)

[MrSpace43]

by realistic you mean more realistic looking textures (ie your acrylic gas planets) or do you mean a more acccurate whole system like how i approached Kepler-90 (see here)

By realistic, I mean the former (the acrylic pour jovians) because planets d-h use textures I generated in Cinema 4D, and they aren't the most realistic.

[trappistplanets]

By realistic, I mean the former (the acrylic pour jovians) because planets d-h use textures I generated in Cinema 4D, and they aren't the most realistic.

yeah, i see where your coming from
using Juno data for fictional jovians will also do the trick (did this to kepler-90 h for my addon of the system), but you do you

[MrSpace43]

The Gliese 581 system has now recieved a major and much-needed overhaul.

[MrSpace43]

The HD 189733 Ab addon has been replaced with an addon that contains 14 hot Jupiters (HD 189733 Ab being one of those 14).

[MrSpace43]

Added HAT-P-2 b to the roster.

[MrSpace43]

The Kepler-69 system has recieved a much-needed update.

[MrSpace43]

I've decided that everytime I make a new addon, I'll post a reply with the addon itself in said reply, rather than add it to the list of addons on the first page, mainly for convenience, and also so I don't have to worry about maxing out at 10 pictures on one reply.

55 Cancri A System

Addon Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wbpj2ghatba2k7i/Copernicus_System.zip/file

(Lava planet texture by Askaniy)

[Eric Nelson]

Some of the other versions of 55 Cancri A showed more reasonable depictions of e.
The best depiction then was a dark world with lava fissures, as shown in SevenSpheres' addon.https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19978&p=150298&hilit=55+cancri#p150298
Though you did good with your effort on the system and Askaniy tried good with the texture of e.

[SevenSpheres]

Actually, more recent research suggests that 55 Cancri e does not have a thick atmosphere. With a temperature of over 3,000 K, it also seems likely that the planet would be completely molten, though it might be more realistic for it to be non-emissive, with reflected light from the star being dominant on the dayside (like my depiction of Gliese 367 b / Tahay).

The surface texture for 55 Cancri e in my addon was modified from an older version of the texture in NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets, I think. In any future update I would probably remove the clouds.

(In fact, when Askaniy first posted his texture on Discord - which was just a generic lava planet texture, made from a picture of tea! - I thought of using it for the same planet.)

[Eric Nelson]

Thanks for the info.
There's always something to discover.

[MrSpace43]

Proxima Centauri System

Addon Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fiarl847nbgb3p8/Proxima_Centauri_System.zip/file

I spent way too long trying to come up with the thumbnail lol.


Update 1/13/24: Minor fix on the normal maps for Proxima b (thx cubic for telling me about disabling dithering on normal maps).

[MrSpace43]

TRAPPIST-1 System (2024 Revamp)

Addon Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gjgmdipvo2njoch/TRAPPIST-1_System_%282024%29.zip/file

This one's been in the works for a few months, so I'm really excited to have finally completed this addon.

(T-1g cloud texture by NASA)

[MrSpace43]

WASP-121 b

Addon Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z06j165eoe4xvj7/WASP-121.zip/file

(Original simulated maps by NASA + ESA)