Planety

[left vapor]

Just move all of Planety-0.2.2 into your KSP2 folder

I mean its contents

[prime chasm]

Oh

So not the folder

the stuff inside

[left vapor]

Also, you still need to install the dependencies

Like all other KSP2 mods

[prime chasm]

Stuff on the right to the left?

[left vapor]

Yes, but after you install the dependencies (Spacewarp)

[prime chasm]

I think installed it

I have Space_Warp_BepInEx-1.9.5.zip

Is that installed or do I need to unzip it or something?

[left vapor]

There are install instrauctions on SpaceDock, read those

[prime chasm]

Ok

Where do I find the ksp 2 root directory?

[left vapor]

You already had it open in your last screenshot

[prime chasm]

Ok

Like this?

[left vapor]

Yes

(Does SpaceWarp still require UITK be installed separately? I can't remember. It will have been in the install instructions if it does.)

[prime chasm]

It says it does

I have that to

Same thing?

[left vapor]

Yes

[prime chasm]

Just move the contents into the Ksp 2 Root Directory?

[left vapor]

Yes

[prime chasm]

Ok

Copied

So i think it should work?

[left vapor]

Yes, although you also need a planet mod for Planety to do anything

[prime chasm]

I have downloaded the tutorial planet

So I assume, same thing again?

I have the mods tab in the settings

No planets tho

ima move contents of the tutorial planet into the Ksp 2 Root Directory

Ok we have Aktiko

Thank you @left vapor

One more thing @left vapor

How do I make custom Planets?

[left vapor]

Look at Planety/Aktiko/aktiko.planety, and make a similar file yourself

[formal valve]

it's always best to just use CKAN when you can for installing mods by the way

that way you get all the dependencies you need

[prime chasm]

Uh oh

[left vapor]

Planety isn't on CKAN because I don't know how to make native libraries CKAN compatible.

[prime chasm]

Oh no

Are the things just editable?

Nope

Uh

Hmm

Where do I start?

Textures?

[left vapor]

You need to design a planet first before you can build it

[prime chasm]

So size and orbit stuff

And distance

[dusk forge]

textures

[prime chasm]

So what I said before

How tho?

[left vapor]

That's up to you

Idk if there's any common tools for drawing equirectangular maps

Maybe ask the Kopernicus community?

[glossy ginkgo]

u can find basically everything here

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/165285-planetary-texturing-guide-repository/

unless forums are down

also try kerbalhub tutorials on youtube they’re helpful if u have no idea how to start

[prime chasm]

Ok

[prime chasm]

KerbalHub is Kopernicus

[glossy ginkgo]

i meant for textures

[prime chasm]

So then i will have to make stats

and code?

[glossy ginkgo]

for code i dont think theres much more than this atm

[prime chasm]

That is a lot of code for me

Ima ask ChatGpt to do it

Cuz i cant code

Muwa ha ha

[glossy ginkgo]

that wont work 😭

at least give it the aktito code and tell it to make it based on that or smth

not really ai fan so not sure how it works

[prime chasm]

Wait why?

[glossy ginkgo]

compare it to aktito code

[prime chasm]

Oh

What is Aktiko in?

[glossy ginkgo]

this thing

basically its a working code template with comments explaining stuff

[prime chasm]

No like what language

Coding language

ima test something

i will be back with my results

[prime chasm]

Yo @glossy ginkgo

Lets go

Got ChatGpt to do it

Just a test tho

Now the real test

Ksp 2

Just gotta steal the shaders

I think

Hmmm

Uh

Wait

Lets go

Ummm

It worked

But

Why is its SOI so large?

[dusk forge]

decrease the mass a bit

[prime chasm]

ima tweak the size i think it is like 3 time the size of Jool

uh oh

I think i fixed it

I did

Oh

it is still very large

Tweak more

[prime chasm]

Ok how do I make the orbit line more transparent?

@left vapor

[dusk forge]

get a more transparent color

the hex code is in RGBA

[prime chasm]

Wait

More tranparent

Like what?

What about #DFFFF1

[prime chasm]

How do I make a color more transparent?

[left vapor]

at 80 to the end

So #DFFFF180

[prime chasm]

Thanks

It did not work? @left vapor

[left vapor]

What did you do exactly, and in what way did it fail?

[prime chasm]

Wait wrong color

Lemme try again

Nvm

It is not transparent

But has an 80

[left vapor]

Strange. And you're not reassigning it later in any way?

[prime chasm]

This is the code (I forced ChatGPT to make a template)

Then I edited the template until got this

[left vapor]

That looks right. And what is it in game?

[prime chasm]

Wdym?

[left vapor]

What does it look like?

[prime chasm]

I cant screenshot?

It alt tabs when I hit Windows+Shift+S

[left vapor]

Then use a different key?

PrtSc?

[prime chasm]

That focuses Kerbin

I can share my screen

We would have to join a vc tho

@left vapor

[left vapor]

This isn't a Planety issue, it's one with you knowing how to use/configuring your own computer, which I can't help you with

[prime chasm]

It happens to my friends aswell

I was just sugessting a way we could get around this

[formal valve]

just alt+enter to go to windowed mode

[prime chasm]

K

@left vapor It looks like this

[prime chasm]

Yo @left vapor

What should I use for shaders on my planet?

[prime chasm]

Wait textures

[crimson cargo]

atmo wen

[amber comet]

atmospheres are hard
I mean they're gas but they're difficult to model 😄
And uh, the ksp2 code for them is coooooomplicated 😆

[dusk forge]

I’ve seen a bunch of atmosphere curve stuff and I have no idea what they mean

[left grove]

ive looked a bit into atmospheres, they're basically a shader in unity its just mainly working out how one could configure it and apply it to planety objects out of the billions of code for it

its a huge pain in the ass to work out whats going on

we can let stellated do his magic though

[left grove]

@left vapor im having issues with sunflares
im sure i have the right values and yet the thing just doesnt wanna work

im so confused

most of my code too

got it back nvm

[lost hornet]

Why does the star look like this in tracking station?

[left grove]

not a planety issue

it looks like that normally

[lost hornet]

how can i make the star glow like kerbol?

[wheat delta]

no atmosphere

😦

[lost hornet]

how to add atmosphere? (this is my first ksp2 mod)

[dusk forge]

there is no atmosphere support

[prime chasm]

Indeed

[lost hornet]

Can I at least use a 3D model for a celestial body?

I just don't know how to make a height map

[peak mica]

0.3.0 when?

[left grove]

soo is it possible at all to change stars SOI?

[glossy ginkgo]

changing the gravity probably would help

[left vapor]

No, it's hard-coded at one lightyear

[glossy ginkgo]

huh that's strange i had a star that's soi was smaller than one light year

unless its not a "star" if it orbits something acording to the game then ig

[left vapor]

Sorry, yes. The root body of any system has a 1ly SOI, regardless of its actual type

[peak mica]

0.3.0 WHEEEEEEEN

[glossy ginkgo]

make it urself if u need it that much

[glossy ginkgo]

not to be rude but

[glossy ginkgo]

i think its kinda rude to say stuff like that

[hallow star]

patience🙏

[left grove]

alrighty then

[peak mica]

sorry im impatient (adhd)

im just waiting for 0.3 so i can make a planet mod

[hallow star]

you can already start working on the terrain (or appearance incase of gas giants) of your planets, they just wont be able to have atmospheres or oceans yet

[left grove]

i too have adhd but im not this impatient

[left vapor]

Atmospheric light transmission information is defined in a 3D texture. That's gonna be fun for people without the right tooling to make.

[glossy ginkgo]

sounds fun indeed

[left grove]

I can't wait

question - are oceans planned as a seperate update?

separate from atmospheres or is it a bundled together one

[left vapor]

Together

Oceans are already done

[left grove]

peak

thank you stellated for most the greatest tool for planet modding

[glossy ginkgo]

since im asuming update is about to release soon-ish could you include like a working example file for the multi file extend thingamajig or just drop it somewhere here
because i dont think anyone actually managed to get it to work and it would help A LOT

[left vapor]

Something that could ostensibly be called an atmosphere

[wintry cloak]

YEA

[left grove]

would ksp even classify it as an atmosphere with drag and clouds

or not really

is it just a model

[left vapor]

It has drag

Way too much drag

Stock bodies use a FloatCurve for that, but I noticed the game has code for an auto-calculate curve option, so I tried that

Apparently it was made by the same person who did the tracking station info panel…

[dusk forge]

Oh yikes

[left grove]

yikess

[left grove]

Re-entry??

[wintry cloak]

:

[left grove]

just forwarding this here

[untold karma]

@left vapor can you actually make new planets?

and design them and stuff

like, you can choose where there are valleys and if theres water and the atmosphere

[lavish tree]

yes but no water or atmosphere yet

but thats coming soon, right @left vapor ?

[lavish tree]

atmosphere and oceans when

[left grove]

Stellated has oceans sorted, atmospheres he needs a scatterer texture or some kind

which is a pain to even get for some reason

[lavish tree]

@left vapor why not just release the oceans before atmospheres if what he speaks is true?

[glossy ginkgo]

A legend says everytime someone asks its being delayed by 2 weeks

its clearly not ready if its not released yet

be patient

[left grove]

i wonder who said that

lowkey though stellated only needs one thing to finish atmospheres

[lavish tree]

https://tenor.com/view/no-giga-chad-no-gif-21613582

[lavish tree]

@left vapor I may have fucked up

is it possible to use 409x2048 color maps?

*4096 not 409

[glossy ginkgo]

color maps yes

height maps no

[lavish tree]

shite

not big shite

but still shite

[left vapor]

heightmaps must be square, yes

other maps just have to be powers of two, but they can be different powers of two

[tranquil badger]

I want to change that limitation, I know where part of it comes from, but idk if its in the shader as well

[left vapor]

The shader works fine with non-squares from my experience

Since shaders sample with floats anyway

[lavish tree]

wdym by that

[left vapor]

Like, each dimension of the image must be a power of two number of pixels long, but the width and height don't have to be the same power of two.

[lavish tree]

what textures do stars use

[glossy ginkgo]

none or cubemaps

but u don’t meet textures for them

unless u want them

[lavish tree]

where would a cubemap go??

[glossy ginkgo]

okay not really a cube map

i mean

its cube map but as

uh

[lavish tree]

could you maybe send a pic?

[glossy ginkgo]

wait ill find what cube said about it

[lavish tree]

i need kind of an in depth explanation

i dont get this at all lmao

[glossy ginkgo]

uh

i dont have it :'(

u need cubemap but not as the cross thing

but each segment seperate

thast it

idk how to simplify it any more :'(

as for how to make these texxtures

no idea

gaseous-giganticus tool for gas gigants textures

made them natively

so i just put random star texture through it

[glossy ginkgo]

and got this

[lavish tree]

whats giganticus

[glossy ginkgo]

stuff that makes procedural gas gigants

[lavish tree]

cool

[glossy ginkgo]

used by most ksp modders

but it needs ubuntu to run

or linux

theres a version for windows somewhere but idk where whatever

[lavish tree]

how did i not know about this

[glossy ginkgo]

it still need

tweaking to look good

but amazing tool

[lavish tree]

i cant figure out witch files to compile

[left grove]

keeping this in mind

I might integrate it w my blender planet texture making

[lavish tree]

nvm

we need a forum for modding tools

[left grove]

Im running into this issue with Planety, stellated is aware about it but theres not much of a fix as far as i know
it seems when you enter a planets SOI the game just decides to crash? wondering if anyone else has ran into this exact problem

it's kind of pushing back development of wocfmp for the time being

i do have logs

game just throws a null exception error at something

[left grove]

i might of worked it out, i went through older posts and saw that heightmaps cannot be larger than 2048x2048

i dunno yet

you would not believe it

that worked

[left grove]

Stellated said that the parameters with numbers are the non-working ones

here are the working parameters, untested though
height_weight = 1;
weight_softness;
uv_scale = 1f;
uv_offset = 1f;
brightness;
contrast = 1f;
saturation = 1f;
normal_strength = 1f;
gloss_strength = 1f;
metallic_strength;
emission_strength;
ao_strength = 1f;
distance_resample_max = 4f;

ones without the numbers like brightness, and metallic strength have a default value of 0 apparently

[dusk forge]

try metallic then

[left grove]

im going to

i think what i can do is
yourplanet.terrain.biomes.blue.texture_1.metallic_strength = 1;
or
yourplanet.terrain.biomes.blue.texture_1.gloss_strength = 1;

i'll see, testing now

i didnt get no error for it so far but i might've just done the biomes thing completely wrong on accident

no im wrong i just wrote the class name for one of my planets completely wrong

It's looking really good so far, no planety error for the gloss_strength one quite yet

i crashed trying to get into orbit of the planet i put the glossy modifier on

i dont think the game tolerates it

just a hunch

[left vapor]

You probably also need to set .metal, which is a texture, but idk what format it wants

[left grove]

yeah no im not running into problems so far, but my thing is suddenly doing the crash problem

again

i will prob try that though

[lavish tree]

i saw there was new messages in here and i was hoping for oceans and atmospheres

[peak mica]

Me too like 7 times

Planety 0.3 before 20026 please

||yes I did mean twenty thousand and twenty six||

[lavish tree]

lol

[left grove]

nah just new parameters you can do with biome maps

or not so new just unused and untested

I'm still trying to work that out, at the moment I'm fixing stupid ksp crashing upon entering the SOI of a planet

again

[left grove]

also huh?

wdym by this

ah yeah i know what you mean now

so the glossy thing

works

i set it to 5 and it doesnt combine well with the gravel texture

atleast we can finally make icy worlds reflect

@glossy ginkgo you can find some use in this finally if it helps with cyfte

[glossy ginkgo]

WOAH nice

the grainy stuff still makes me not want to use ground texture tho

[left grove]

yeah no that does piss me off a heap

but i think utilising different textures helps, if you use the right settings

woah okay i just found a weird bug

[left grove]

anyway i used these settings and used textures from here https://www.texturecan.com/details/240/

[left grove]

no clue what on earth happened here

yeah making a new save fixed it, but a very strange bug

[glossy ginkgo]

obviously u found weather support

and those are lightnings

[left grove]

leaked cloudy update

[left grove]

here are the settings i used on this moon

you still get the grainy effect, but generally not as much

now the only thing that really is annoying is that eeloo in map view reflects whilst shiny planety planets do not

i kind of wonder if the addition of oceans would do anything in map view

[left grove]

im curious to test emission strength

[left grove]

i lowkey keep forgetting that biomemaps dont need to be just red and blue hence that green is also a value

that i dont think anybody has used

[left grove]

nope

doesnt work

infact it doesnt even let you load into any save when its defined on a planet

yup..

nevermind i likely just did something wrong lmao, i removed it and its still crashing

ah yeah thats why

[left grove]

it may work, but not as well

[prime chasm]

atmo when?

[opal basalt]

we still need sphere

[prime chasm]

What

[glossy ginkgo]

atmo - sphere

[left grove]

i'm curious if theres plans for scattering

[peak mica]

atmsopheres will arrive in the year 56748315617938756317851657891 according to new leak from stellatedcube

[peak mica]

planets are spheres

[opal basalt]

I thought they were squares

[peak mica]

Only in Minecraft

[lavish tree]

@left vapor i had an idea for the atmospheres update, not sure how hard this would be to implement, but it would be cool if you could make different layers of the atmospheres different colors, so you could get a titan like effect

[opal basalt]

Kinda like eve?

[lavish tree]

idk never went to eve in KSP2

could you send a pic?

[opal basalt]

Im not playing ksp rn

[opal basalt]

See. I also but markers on when it hits a new layer

also can be seen from map view

[lavish tree]

oooh yeah

[opal basalt]

Eve also has a giant haze layer too

[lavish tree]

similar to titan

[left grove]

would be the Rayleigh scattering of the atmosphere

ksp2 already has a property for this called Scattering

problem is its not a singular texture and it's a LUT generated over a bunch of frames iirc

gpu stored LUT

You'd need to replace the atmosphere with a static model for it to be better + the atmosphere properties such as the drag and whatnot

[lavish tree]

rayleigh as in every cheerleader ever?

[prime chasm]

When atmos?

[opal basalt]

we still need phere

[lavish tree]

https://tenor.com/view/dad-joke-dadjoke-roasted-boom-gif-22339988

[peak mica]

planety 0.3 is releasing in the year 20,000,026 unfortunately

[prime chasm]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[peak mica]

@left vapor WHEN IS 0.3 COMING OUT WE NEED IT AND HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE LIKE APRIL

[dusk forge]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-stare-at-paper-gif-5257839294650729742

[peak mica]

i'm getting impatient though

i've been waiting for SIX MONTHS

[dusk forge]

I don't think bugging StellatedCUBE will do anything though

[peak mica]

well i want at least information about 0.3

at this point i think the project is dead

[lavish tree]

@left vapor is this still in development?

[peak mica]

Probably not lol