Atmospheres for the gas giants

[The Singing Badger]

I'd like to add atmospheres to the gas giants. After all, it's fun to sit on Saturn and gaze up at the rings, but the view would be prettier and (I presume) more accurate if there was a blue sky.

Can I do this by simply adding some lines to the Solar System .ssc file? And if so, does anyone have some reccomendations as to the numbers I should use? I could just experiment, but I'm sure I'd make a mess.

Thanks,

TSB

[Don. Edwards]

Yes all you have to do is add the same lines you see in say the Earth's atmosphere lines. Actually Earth's atmosphere code can work ok on the outer jovians because most of the pictures we see of them they have a pale blue upper atmospheric glow. I am sure someone has a more accurate set of .ssc line of code for the outer jovians that you can use. Someone will probably show you what to do in more detail. Just give it a little time and keep watching this thread.

Don. Edwards

[bh]

Yes you can...and great fun it is. As Don has said, just check out the atmosphere lines in other sscs...here's one of mine:

Atmosphere {
Height 631.66
Lower [ 0.18 0.20 0.13 ]
Upper [ 0.13 0.13 0.28 ]
Sky [ 0.20 0.26 0.17 ]
CloudHeight 63.17
CloudSpeed 474.93
CloudMap "gc_gasgt_03-clouds.png"
}

I'm using Rassilons generator to create these lines of code...if you don't like it you can try again...fantastic!

Have lots of fun here!

Regards...bh.

[Guest]

Does anyone know of any acurate settings for these?

Or perhaps a way to determine based on atmosphere content?

[The Singing Badger]

Thanks Bh,

I tried it for Jupiter, and it works! Not sure about the green, but each to their own...

One problem: the atmosphere is spherical, but Jupiter is not. This makes it look rather silly around the poles. Is there a way of fixing this by making the atmosphere oblate like the planet?

[Don. Edwards]

Well you can turn off Jupiter's oblatness setting. I though Chris fixed atmospheres so they would follow the shape of any planet. Or was it something he was atill working on?

Don. Edwards

[chris]

Well you can turn off Jupiter's oblatness setting. I though Chris fixed atmospheres so they would follow the shape of any planet. Or was it something he was atill working on?

Don. Edwards

It's fixed for 1.3.1 (and in later 1.3.1 prereleases)

--Chris

[Darkmiss]

Try these

Jupiter

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   Atmosphere {
   Height 300
   Lower  [ 0.7 0.6 0.5 ]
   Upper  [ 0.5 0.45 0.4 ]
   Sky    [ 0.8 0.8 0.5 ]
   Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
   }

Saturn

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   Atmosphere {
   Height 300
   Lower  [ 0.8 0.75 0.65 ]
   Upper  [ 0.6 0.55 0.45 ]
   Sky    [ 0.8 0.8 0.5 ]
   }

[bh]

Paul...cheers for these....will apply.

Regards...bh.