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| Anesjka | Date: Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 19:50 | Message # 77 |
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| I would hope to see a mod or update to SE ASAP 
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| JCandeias | Date: Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 20:46 | Message # 78 |
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| One thing, pretty conspicuous in those images, that has relevance for icy worlds in SpaceEngine, is:
There isn't the slightest hint of ice sheen.
SpaceEngine should get rid of it, except in worlds warm enough for water ices to form thin liquid layers at the surface. Like the Earth. In outer worlds it looks plasticky.
They let me use this!
Edited by JCandeias - Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 20:47 |
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| Snowfall | Date: Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 22:14 | Message # 79 |
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| lately i have been assembling some maps of Pluto and Charon from new horizons pictures as we got closer. I'm not sure how accurate they are but they fit together alright. what do you think?
Pluto: http://fav.me/d918tlb
Charon: http://fav.me/d91fyqf
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Sadly i did not use the HD part of Pluto in the map yet. I will attempt assembling them once more come down i think.
i cant wait to see more of these amazing worlds, my week has been pretty exciting with all this! = )
*EDIT i just updated the Pluto texture with the new HD tiles and did my best. just click the link under the Pluto map to view it!
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And i agree with JCandeias. the shine of the icey worlds in space engine look very plastic and glossy!
sorry for my dyslexia.
never stop imagining beautiful things.
Edited by Snowfall - Tuesday, 21.07.2015, 04:31 |
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 22:18 | Message # 80 |
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| Quote JCandeias (  ) SpaceEngine should get rid of it, except in worlds warm enough for water ices to form thin liquid layers at the surface. Like the Earth. In outer worlds it looks plasticky.
Added specular brightness parameters to universe.cfg
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| Voekoevaka | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 01:17 | Message # 81 |
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| Good work Snowfall !
I tried porting these into SE, the result is pretty funky :
But it's worth waiting for the hi-res maps.
Want some music of mine ? Please go here !
Edited by Voekoevaka - Thursday, 16.07.2015, 01:22 |
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| Solaris | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 02:00 | Message # 82 |
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| Quote Voekoevaka ( ) it's worth waiting for the hi-res 
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 06:48 | Message # 83 |
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| Salvo | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 11:26 | Message # 84 |
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| Quote FastFourierTransform ( ) Apparently someone is starting to make 3D surface maps with the new images
Awesome!
Would be hard to make a "fake" pluto texture? (trying to enhance the side with lower quality)
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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(still don't know why everyone is doing this...)
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| myrommilani | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 14:27 | Message # 85 |
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| Comeon guys! Aren't you excited? We lived to see it being called a planet, later changed to dwarf, and then returning to be the favorite again. And also, scientificaly speaking, we are now able to reach such distance and take beautiful pictures like the one NASA took from Pluto. 
I don't know if this thread is kinda off-rules, but I didn't see any thread like this and I think this is the best place to talk about it.
Edited by myrommilani - Thursday, 16.07.2015, 14:27 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 14:36 | Message # 86 |
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| Quote myrommilani ( ) I didn't see any thread like this and I think this is the best place to talk about it.
Do a search for "pluto", this thread is the second item on the list.
All forum users, please read this!
My SE mods and addons
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 19:04 | Message # 87 |
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| Quote FastFourierTransform ( ) Apparently someone is starting to make 3D surface maps with the new images
Cool! Looks like they're using the incidence angle of the light, assuming uniform brightness, and deriving slope angle from that. Someone should do that with the un-bumped southern half of the SE Mercury map - Messenger's Mapping Laser Altimeter was unable to produce usable data for the southern hemisphere because the apoapsis of its orbit was over the southern pole, and was so eccentric that it took the surface outside the altimeter's effective range.
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| ZackG | Date: Thursday, 16.07.2015, 20:45 | Message # 88 |
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| I just checked the plutonian system and the orbits are very much inaccurate based on the New Horizons encounter. is there a webpage that contains data received from the spacecraft that has these orbit changes?
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Edited by ZackG - Thursday, 16.07.2015, 20:45 |
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| christopherguinnup | Date: Friday, 17.07.2015, 03:09 | Message # 89 |
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| Data will be coming in over time. I wouldn't expect a quick & immediate update, but rather a gradual integration of the new data. Much like the continual refinement of science.
That said, it's super-exciting that we're getting a detailed picture of the last body thought to be a planet when most of us were educated on the solar system. And the unique factors of the Pluto system -- mutual tidal lock, few craters -- make it a mystery definitely worth exploring.
Edited by christopherguinnup - Friday, 17.07.2015, 03:12 |
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| ZackG | Date: Friday, 17.07.2015, 04:15 | Message # 90 |
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| Quote christopherguinnup ( ) Data will be coming in over time. I wouldn't expect a quick & immediate update, but rather a gradual integration of the new data. Much like the continual refinement of science.
That said, it's super-exciting that we're getting a detailed picture of the last body thought to be a planet when most of us were educated on the solar system. And the unique factors of the Pluto system -- mutual tidal lock, few craters -- make it a mystery definitely worth exploring.
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