SOLAR SYSTEM TEXTURES AND LESS BRIGHTNESS ADDONS
SOLAR SYSTEM LESS BRIGHT
This file is totally independent of my other textures for solar system addons but it can be also installed with them.
It just makes all planets, major and minor moons, less bright, the hapke is also removed except for europa and enceladus (with a very low value). I reduced a lot the brightness of the atmosphere of Mars and Earth too. In my opinion you can see the details a lot of better.
Click on the photo preview for better details:
To install just copy it into the addons folder of SE.
Download Solar System Less Bright Addon
(UPDATED DATE AT: 13 March 2018)
PROBLEMS: If you see doubled objects just download again the less brightness file. It's a problem related with priorities given by the file date. I'm constantly updating it.
SOLAR SYSTEM TEXTURES
-NEPTUNE AND TRITON
-URANUS MOONS
-SATURN MOONS
-VENUS
I'm going to post all textures I published in the old forum.
INSTALLATION: JUST COPY THE PAK FILE INTO THE ADDONS FOLDER OF SPACE ENGINE.
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NEPTUNE SYSTEM
TRITON
It's not fully real, it's a composition build from the highest resolution parts of the closest flyby of the Voyager 2, making an overall HD texture. I'm proud of it.
Credits: Steve Alberts owner of the original texture and me for the composition.
Download Triton
NEPTUNE
UPDATE: I changed somethings like atmosphere, cubemap faces and like the others the brightness. I advise to download again.
This texture is not mine, it is an adaptation of the Neptune HD texture of Celestia. I adapted it to SE, looks a lot of better than the default one in SE. I reduced a lot the bright of the atmosphere model in the code from Neptune (it was too blue and ruins the texture). The screenshot (dunno why) looks bad I uploaded a better quality screen but still looks strange. The texture don't have any those "squares".
Credits: Celestia Motherlode by FarGetaNik
Download Neptune
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URANUS MOONS
Voyager 2 flyby could only cover a half of the surface of this moons due the 90 degrees inclination of Uranus. Because this I made the other unknown hemisphere with parts of the photographed one, I also replaced the worst parts.
MIRANDA
Another Celestia Texture adapted for SE. I always loved this one. Not mine, just adapted.
Credits: Celestia Motherlode by FarGetaNik
Download Miranda
ARIEL
Another composition, I made it from the best parts of the original picture. A lot of better quality.
Credits: Steve Alberts owner of the original texture and me for the composition
Download Ariel
UMBRIEL
Composition like the last ones. The worst resolution of all Uranus moons but still better than the default in SE.
Credits: Steve Alberts owner of the original texture and me for the composition
Download Umbriel
TITANIA
Composition like the others. Along with Ariel the best original quality resolution for the Uranus moons compositions.
Credits: Steve Alberts owner of the original texture and me for the composition
Download Titania
OBERON
Last composition, good quality.
Credits: Steve Alberts owner of the original texture and me for the composition
Download Oberon
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SATURN MOONS
I did this textures before the official HD packs for SE. They took me sometime so I want to share them. I think Dione has some better resolution (it's based in a 23k resolution texture), and the other have some other little differences. You might give them a try.
All moons original cylindrical projections come from JPL Nasa Photojournal
MIMAS
I didn't made any edition, it's just the cyclindrical of the Nasa Photojournal adapted to SE.
Download Mimas
TETHYS
I made two versions of it. One is a 4k resolution image of Thetys made in real colors, the other one has a lot of better resolution but is like a radar image with no brightness or colour differences, to simulate the high amount of ice in its surface I increased some the brightness. So if you want good details download the HD version but if you want a real looking download the RC version.
Download HD Tethys
Download Real Colors Tethys
DIONE
This one has an original size of 23k, the stripes zone for example has a really good resolution. I also replaced the zone in the centrer of the stripes (that zone is from another texture with better resolution there) that in the original one was low resolution. Finally I hand painted the stripes because the original has no albedo differences.
Download Dione
RHEA
Just the nasa photojournal texture of Rhea, no editions, real colours.
Download Rhea
PHOEBE
It's not a texture, is a procedural moon that replaces the default one. This moon is a lot of darker and with a lot of big craters.
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VENUS
NEWS: I uploaded again all Venus maps because they were bad oriented.
This texture is not better than the official HD pak, of course. It's based in an 11k resolution image of venus colored, I replaced some parts with others with better fringes resolution. It has 2 bump maps, one is a fake bump map (not real) but with the same resolution of the original texture based on, the other bump map is real (author is John Van Vliet, thanks)
Texture map (download and install it always)
Venus Surface Map
Bump maps (INSTALL JUST ONE!):
Download Real JVV Bump Map
Download Fake Bump Map
Venus Dark Orange Clouds Addon
Due the thick layer of clouds that envelope Venus the surface is quite dark. I tryed with this addon to reflect that (of course from space Venus looks the same). The file is just 2 Kb size, give it a try.
INSTALLATION (READ CAREFULLY):
WARNING: If you are using my Solar System Bodies Less Brightness addon you MUST download it again and overwrite the old one! (It's at the beginning of this thread and updated)
--If you are just using the default textures of SE and the bump map for Venus just download one of this files and copy it in the addons folder:
Download Darker Clouds Vanilla Addon
with the SE Venus original Surface map but orange-dark coloured:
Download Darker Clouds Vanilla Orange Addon
--If you are using my texture of Venus surface you must have this files in the addons folder:
- SS-Venus-Surface-Cirax.pak
- SS-Venus-Bump-Real-JVV-DEM.pak or SS-Venus-Bump-Fake-Cirax.pak
and finally download and put in the addons folder this file:
Download Darker Clouds Cirax Surface Addon
IMPORTANT: Don't use at the same time the vanilla clouds file and the clouds for my textures.