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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 13 May 2017 12:31
by Roswell
thanks SpaceEngineer ^^

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 25 Jul 2017 01:33
by PlutonianEmpire
I made some tweaks and deleted duplicates, after combining the last file on the last page with what I currently had on my system.

I also noticed that the planet palettes application has a habit of resetting some parameters to 0.00 on all four columns. It is a good idea to make backups of palette files before running them through the planet palettes app, so if a parameter gets reset, you can just copy and paste the backed up data onto the new file. :)
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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 01:25
by Julian
Do the green colors on the "olivine mountains" textures for desert planets need to be toned down? It looks weird to see this much green on a planet that doesn't have life.
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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 03:35
by Watsisname
Yeah, it does seem a little weird, but the color itself is basically right.  For reference, this is what a rock made entirely of olivine (dunite) looks like (my own find).
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A big portion of the mantles of silicate planets is made of this stuff, and it can be brought to the surface by tectonic processes, so it can cover large areas of the surface.  This rock came from an entire mountain made of it.  In the presence of oxygen it gets an orange coating to it though, so the mountain itself is orange instead of green.  But on a desert planet with no oxygen in the air?  Maybe it's not that unrealistic.

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 14:26
by Julian
Yes, but even the sample you have doesn't have as saturated of a green as some of these palettes do.

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 15:10
by PlutonianEmpire
It is intentional artistic license when some of us add less realistic colors. ;)

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 08 Aug 2017 14:28
by Julian
I've modified palette.cfg so that the "olivine mountains" styles of desert planets have less saturated greens:
palette.cfg
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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 15 Aug 2017 14:28
by Julian
I've also modified the blue desert color in the "Contrast colors 5" palette so that it looks less like water when viewed from space:
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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:59
by Roswell
OMG, IT'S IDENTICAL :D congrats Julian :D

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 13:13
by Julian
I wanted to keep it subtle. Are you using ReShade by any chance?

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 14:20
by Roswell
No.

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 22:02
by Julian
Finally found an example of a "Contrast colors 5" world to do a before and after comparison:
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COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 13 Jan 2018 12:40
by kham132
I've been making new terran palletes, but some of my terras look like this in-game.
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Anything I can fix? My pallete.cfg fle is attatched.

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 14 Jan 2018 02:07
by Julian
I don't have HIP 56078 in my catalog, but could you go into the editor with this planet selected, check what its SurfStyle is, and see which StyleRange in your palette that value falls into?

COMMUNITY ADDON - Planet Palettes

Posted: 14 Jan 2018 10:55
by kham132
Julian, its surface style is 0.914, but I'm don't know what to do with that other step, I'm very new at making palletes.