This is way too dark. It's unrealistic going by all Apollo imagery

i lowered the gamma by recommendation of the developer because the texture i used (not the default SE one) had gamma adjusted albedo. i did not make the texture so i don't know if it's actually accurate or not.

again i wouldn't even know what to lower the brightness value to in order to be accurate because i don't have accurate pictures to go off of.

The moon is not like this, it might be brighter than it should in SE sure, but if so then what you should lower is the "brightness" and "real bright" values to match it's actual albedo, not lower the gamma lol

I really appreciate you making this! The Moon is more pleasing to look at with this!

i could probably lower the gamma more but without accurate pics IDK how dark i should adjust it to

you say it looks more like asphalt, but it is it darker than asphalt? if i recall correctly, the moon is actually even darker than asphalt.

Make full solar system revamp please

Make sun and earth revamp (please)

not even a "please"

make sun and earth revamp

good news, the moon is no longer yellow

Oh okay, good to know!

the texture i used is already like that, just with an yellow/orange tinge. it's SpaceEngine itself lighting it up like that

Correct, the moon's surface is actually only slightly brighter than worn asphalt. It just looks bright to us because it's close to us, and it tends to be against the black of space. You can get a better idea of it's actual colour by looking at it during the daytime. I kinda want the moon in this to be as dark as it should be...

it looks different because of the suns light or something, the moon is actually way darker, but is literally light up by the suns light like everything else. im pretty sure the moon's actual colour is comparable to charcoal.

it should still work because its just textures, unless the texture names were renamed in the latest beta. in order for them to work after an update though, you need to resubscribe to them due to the way SpaceEngine handles files

Does the Solar System Improvement series need an update for the most recent beta version of Space Engine or is it still compatible?

fair enough, but i dont think math = appearance so whats fargetanik even doing??

i didn't actually make it, FarGetaNik did, and they usually do at least some math with their textures. but it might be that its using gamma-adjusted albedo instead of linear albedo. if i can figure out how to actually edit that, maybe it would look less yellow? idk. this whole "solar system improvement" thing is really just me having a field day with cubemap lol

well the moon here doesnt look like the moon, its more yellow too. i assume you were trying to make it realistic but the atmosphere of the earth is what makes the moon look yellow

IMO it looks better to me, but this texture is one of the main reasons i split the original addon up

how is this an improvement