Add-on in progress

Apollonius · Post #1by **Apollonius** » 08.06.2007, 08:31

Here's what I have so far: 1 star, 1 planet with a moon, and a white dwarf. Ok, that's 2 stars but whatever. The planet's moon has radioactive elements within its crust that absorb light during the light phase, and emit it during the dark phase. God I love night textures...what a cool thing. I don't have the ability to see them with my current crappy video card, but hopefully soon. Yup......I faked the 2 night textures seen here, but hopefully it will look about like that when it's the actual effect...or better.

Tuefish · Post #2by **Tuefish** » 09.06.2007, 00:05

Nice work! I like the concepts, keep at it.

Apollonius · Post #3by **Apollonius** » 09.06.2007, 08:23

Thanks!

I love warping science to suit my aesthetic whims.

....But then I found this:

"Remarkable 'ultraviolet' star detected by Orion 2"

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974Afz....10..379G

Maybe I'll make it a binary star system, and have the second star be ultraviolet!

Tuefish · Post #4by **Tuefish** » 10.06.2007, 00:49

Here's something I was working on along the same lines as Apollonius

Apollonius · Post #5by **Apollonius** » 11.06.2007, 02:36

Hey, that looks cool! That's something you were already working on? Cool!

Well I've been working on the add-on still. Now it's up to 2 stars, 3 planets, and six moons. I'm having a lot of fun...

This first new planet's texture took me longer to do than any other yet. I literally had to paint a lot of it with the altitude tool. I don't know what's up with the blue color, but I liked it.

This one's my first gas giant. I like the colors in it, but again...they don't exactly look feasible but who knows.

This one is a moon of the previous planet. It's name is from an old astrosynthesis random name that stuck with me.

And one more moon of Josep 13...