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Edited OP to include updated texture pack.

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960L

A hazy, hazy planet. According to Wikipedia, it's the smallest ever detected by microlensing.

A remake of Don Edwards' volcanic moon texture, used for various objects throughout the Celestia-ED activities. I've always loved the look of that texture, but it's got severe pole-pinch and grayscale-as-bump syndrome. Those issues, plus a healthy dose of nostalgia, inspired me to track down the sam...

An asteroid.jpg replacement that's designed specifically for asteroids. For best results, I recommend editing your data files so this runs in parallel with my other asteroid.jpg , using that one for dwarf planets and exoplanets, and this one for asteroids and minor moons. CC-BY 4.0, do something coo...

(Finally) updated the celestia.space links to the new domain.

Totally fictional 8K Eris and 4K Dysnomia reskin. Originally released this to the Discord back in April while the forums were inaccessible, if you already got it there this is the same thing. As always, CC-BY 4.0, do something cool with it.





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Rho CrB
An old system, in terms of both discovery and the star's physical age. Both planets are most likely tide-locked by now.


Updated 08-11-23 to add the other two planets.

The SSC file has the answers you're looking for.

"You can hide your eyes, and you can dim the lights, but they are watching..." This addon puts flying saucers over Earth and Mars. Why? Because it's fun, and also as a trial run for adding spacecraft to my M83 addons. CC-BY as always, do something cool with it. lgm-1337c.png lgm-047f.png

A Venus cloud map made from that one iconic Mariner 10 image . I've included 4 color variants based on different versions I've found of the image: red-brown, gold, vaguely natural colors (the default) or the original blue tone. If you edit these, do something cool with them, and credit me (CubicApoc...

Lich / PSR B1257+12
The first exoplanet system ever discovered.

The ocean color can't be changed without editing the texture. That said, the oceans should already be a lighter blue with the atmosphere over them, do you have atmospheres turned off or can your system not render them?

My impression of Mars in glorious-ish 8K. This map is a mix of both the color and grayscale versions of the Viking MDIM2.1, with lightly massaged MOLA elevation to create the normal map. The clouds are completely fictional, using a few real images solely as reference. I've adjusted the surface color...

I had to make an original texture for V838 Mon A based on visual analysis and optical wavelength since there's no place to find a star texture named after it and the addon didn't come with it. ...why magenta? Maybe the Unity engine's ruined the color for me, but all I can think of when I see this i...

Thanks, edited the OP and stuck a readme in the zip.

To be fair cubic, these could be best added into version 1.7.0 for its final release (when it actually happens) to replace the current defaults. I'm perfectly ok with this, fwiw. Those exoplanets have needed an upgrade for quite a while now. The default planet textures could also use a resolution b...

Just a set of replacements for the stock exoplanet textures and asteroid.jpg. I've also included a generic desert world. For best results, dump all the textures in Celestia/textures/hires, and then find and replace all instances of "asteroid.*" in your exoplanet catalogue with "desert...

Mod edit: This thread is in response to a deleted spam post.

I use bits and pieces of their 8K Venus surface map as source material for some of my own worlds, but that's about it.

Kepler-442
Kepler-442 b is a potentially superhabitable world orbiting a main sequence K-class star. I've littered it with the ruins of at least one long-dead civilization.

Look a little closer at screenshot 2, there's some subtle detail deep under the haze.