About the mod
Like the title, this mod is basically an expansion for "Real Solar System", and currently it includes following parts:
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RSS-Origin CelestialsPack, the major part of this mod, which adds plenty of asteroids, asteroid moons, comets, moons of gas/ice giants, dwarf planets, dwarf planet moons, and interstellar objects into real solar system, currently 200 in total. (dozens more in the future)
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RSS-Origin RSSTexture&TopoRevamp, which overhauls some RSS celestials with more accurate, more realistic and higher res textures and topography, since some of original RSS textures are unrealistic in color, topo and other stuff.
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RSS-Origin JSUNrings, which adds accurate and realistic rings to the 4 gas giants in our solar system.
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RSS-Origin GalaxyTex, which replaces your skybox with a high-quality Milky Way background.
RSS-Origin CelestialsPack is originally made for playing in Principia. Many of its unique features can only be displayed in Principia, like irregular gravitational field of irregular "potatoes", binary/trinary systems, orbital mechanics of trojans and co-orbitals, small objects swinging by major planet changing its orbit, etc. So it is highly recommended to play the mod in Principia. You can play without Principia though, but I bet you won't get the best experience, especially when conducting interplanetary missions.
Me and my team are doing our best to ensure that every celestial body visited by spacecraft uses models and textures that are as close to reality as possible in the game, celestial bodies that have not been visited by spacecraft use their models and spectra based on reliable observations as much as possible. The physical characteristics of those completely unknown objects are reasonable artistic creations based solely on existing data.
Textures in this pack do not exceed 8k. Larger bodies uses 4k textures or lower, smaller bodies uses 2k or lower.
Sure! Each celestial body in RSSOCP has biome and science point. But RP-1 has not been adapted, the mission center does not have a contract for corresponding celestial bodies, and the revenue of different scientific instrument may also be affected.
And please be sure to read "Installation Guide" before installation!
List of exceptional celestials added in current release of RSS-Origin CelestialsPack. (standardized albedo) (not to scale)
RSS-Origin RSSTexture&TopoRevamp is an overhaul to some of the RSS celestials. I've done a widely search for information and figure out some of the RSS celestials are using wrong and misaligned surface textures ,topograhy maps, false or enhanced color images. So this mod's purpose is to fix those issues, fixing texture alignment flip or rotation, and make them displayed in natural color. Different texture resolutions are provided (4k, 8k and 16k).
Don't forget to read "Installation Guide" before installation!
Note: Some of the textures above are derived from or inspired by RSS-Reborn by @ballisticfox, kindly used with his permission. RSS-Reborn is basically a totally remake of RSS, with the highest quality texture, terrain and visual enhancement ever (64k Earth, Moon, Mars, etc.). See RSS-Reborn for more detail.
This is a part of RSS-Origin RSSTexture&TopoRevamp, which replaces the original regular spheroid shape of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by a real, ellipsoidal shape, alongside with their textures reprojected to fit their oblateness. There is a setting in RSSOriginSettings.cfg which allows you to choose which planet you want for a ellipsoidal shape.
Note: Some people may not be clear about it, that KSP's atmosphere can only be spheroidal-shaped, so does scatterer. So in one word, this part of RSS-Origin will break gas planets' atmosphere and possibly scatterer (the game won't be broken), so use it at your own risk if you want to go deep into gas planets' atmosphere. This part is intended to get a more realistic look of gas planets outside their atmosphere, so I recommend to disable the ellipsoidal shape when you're going to enter the atmosphere of gas planets.
RSS-Origin JSUNrings adds realistic rings to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune:
- Jupiter: Halo ring, Main ring, Amalthea gossamer ring, Thebe gossamer ring.
- Saturn: Main rings (A,B,C,D,F), G ring, E ring.
- Uranus: Narrow main rings (6, 5, 4, α, β, η, γ, δ, ε), Dusty rings (1986U2R/ζ, λ), Outer rings (ν, μ).
- Neptune: Galle ring, Le Verrier ring, Lassell ring, Adams ring and arcs.
Once again, don't forget to read "Installation Guide" before installation!
RSS-Origin GalaxyTex replaces your skybox with a fairly good Milky Way background in correct orientation. 4 resolutions are provided (8k, 16k, 32k, 64k). Source https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4851.
See Gallery for more.
- more celestials
- more keplerian average
- better terrain texture
- more parallax support
- ...
See CREDIT.md