For reference, I landed a job that has me pulling 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week.

I'm planning on doing a significant update on it, but I'm crunched for time.

we could use a decent saturn mod now, ATA one got that buggy black core lol, looks like an eye... any plans on fixing this?

"Any plans to update this mod? I've noticed a few planets on the Workshop which have rings which look good, so I presume they either found a workaround, or Keen fixed the issue"

Plenty of plans to upload a fixed version. I'm just pulling off now 4 jobs and kids which makes it slow going.

Hey. Any plans to update this mod? I've noticed a few planets on the Workshop which have rings which look good, so I presume they either found a workaround, or Keen fixed the issue

Text is notoriously unexpressive. :)

@Kill, Since I can't exactly put tone in what I'm typing, that was more of an explanation rather than me being pissed or anything.
Your good mate

Sorry to hear that, I was only poking fun at the whole situation

Everyone just stay the hell home

@Kill It may have got me home, but its also landed a few of my friends in the hospital. One with a collapsed lung

@riotgrrl_adria God bless the Coronavirus, eh?

3 Saturn mods [Solar System] Saturn ..... [ATA] Saturn and Saturn HD revived Help https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2048630775

Grognak: Should be able to take another look at it shortly (i.e a few days) since human malware has cleared up my schedule until the 3rd or 4th.

Hey any news on a improved Saturn??

Well, at the very least you have it planned! Better than nothing, after all!

Fair enough

Ah, ok.
Thats been an elusive issue that I've been working on fixing. For some odd reason the alpha transparency isn't working correctly. I have a good idea as to how to fix it, but I'm up to my neck with work and kids (plus I'm updating ALL of Ghosts planets).

Yeah, ofc they do. Just not in that axis. :P

Also when I asked if you are able to get them looking right, I was referring to making the rings look like... rings. Instead of a solid beige disc.

I have to p*ss around with the config file to get the proper angle. That's a lot of mindless edit, load, save, quit ad nasuem.

The rings on the real Saturn do indeed rotate btw. Hence why I added it in. Its been CONSIDERABLY sped up, like the cloud rotation for consistancy with each other, and I wanted to give the impression that its super windy at a glance.

Okay. Any idea if you can get the rings to look right again?

They are suppose to rotate. As for the issue with the wrong axis, I'm working on that. That's something to be fixed in the next update, If I remember.

Or rather, if they're intended to rotate, why do they rotate on the wrong axis?

Why do the rings rotate?

It works for me and it's pretty friggin' cool looking. Thank you!! I certainly look forward to future updates. =D

That's weird. I'm not getting that on my end.
Can you start a new empty world with just this mod on and place the planet and see if this is the case?

The rings are now a square box around the round part of the planet

That's fair enough. :)

The original mod was suppose to have this, but it wasn't present, so IDK if it got removed because of an issue, or if Ghost didn't include it because of accident. That does happen, and I'm guilty of it from time to time.
When your working with stuff like this, you usually keep a copy of the original in case if everything goes to hell, a copy of what you last released for reference, and a current version that your working on. This is like 10 gigs of stuff with all the planets and version I work with.
I've accidently uploaded older versions, including the original by mistake.

I'm planning on cooking up a script that will work similar to the thermo-dynamic script that will work somewhat like that. That's more long term because I got a lot on my plate atm.

Lol. A personal request, if it isn't already a thing, btw:

Can you add a kill layer to Saturn at some point, so that it's impossible to actually fly down to the voxel surface?

I've been having (low frequency) discussions with him for some time, and has helped me with figuring out some things to do with the update that added in wind generators as that made some changes to planets.
Ill go bother him a little more. Hope I haven't worn my welcome out yet :P

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1813330640 this mod-maker seems to have got rings working decently. Take a look, maybe it will help.

I'm returning back to modding, but my spare time is pretty limited with work and kids. Updates will follow on this planet, but I'm going to get the atmosperes working properly as my main priority. That one is the most requested one, and I'm getting a bit tired of having to explain how to install it properly and get rid of the annoying errors.

Sorry to hear that, take the time you need.

Just found out

I'm gonna be taking a break from modding for a bit due to a friend of mine passing away...

Deimos and Phobos are already on the workshop and working fine; using them in my current world.

I really wish i knew how to make DeeDee (2014 UZ244), as it is the one stellar object i can't find on the workshop. :D

I'm planning on doing an entire solar system, albeit with a major restraint on the number of moons after I get all of the planets up to date. A collaborative project could potentially be done, as certain bodies like Mar's moons Phobos and Deimos would best be represented as asteroids to get their shape correct. These types of things (asteroid creation) is above my ability ATM.

Impressive work tbh.

You could try contacting AbeAlpha, as he is also working on planets atm.
ATA Solar System: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1697074695

For sure, one modpack (not world), containing all planets would be a godsend.

Thank you for your hard work in any case.

Nice, thanks for the comprehensive update. :)

I'm off next on the 15th and 16th and I'll be working on it then. Hopefully I can make some good progress.

Right now, I'm about 50% done with this particular planet. I've gotten a new version of Aibos, Ancore, Akura, Aorus, and Aplov finished and undergoing testing before I'll be releasing them. I updated those planets to try and take a little break from Saturn as it's annoying as hell with the ring problem being so damn stubborn.

Each planet requires me to completely rewrite the various data files, then manually tweak values to try and get them so that they look like what they did in previous versions of the game. This is pretty tedious work to say the least.
I also have to recreate or edit some of the textures, especially with some of the height maps which have had some strange issues, like having them no longer properly match up with each other leading to seams.
Another thing I'm doing is editing them and adding in new content and features. With Saturn, I've got some additional modifications which I think will be greatly enjoyed when I release the next update.

I'm trying to balance going back to school, a job, a family (with two young kids), and updating somewhere close to 20 different mods. I haven't given up on this planet, but am working on some of the others for the moment being while I get some ideas as to how to fix the broken rings. I've updated and improved 5 different planets and will be releasing them soon when I get a moment in my hellishly busy life.

Any word on this?

PC is fixed. Will be starting work on it after all the updates

Ah, nice.

Kill3rCat the Ironfist D-2-506: My PC is KIA. Got the parts to fix it, but its gonna be a little bit while I finish getting it put back together (and a nice little upgrade). Should be done with it tomorrow, if not this weekend.

I've been having a hell of a time trying to get it fixed on my end, as the alpha transparency isn't working like it should. I've got someone to bug on helping me with that particular issue, so stay tuned.

https://puu.sh/DuwK9/260a17a275.jpg She's really not a beauty...