Solar System 2.0 — A New Base
Released: July 10th, 2023
Changelog – Devlog 2 – Devlog 1
Description
This is a mostly complete representation of the Solar System with moons up to Jupiter
It has realistic planet scale, gravity, orbits, positions, atmospheres, and terrain
Many satellite maps and procedural generation are used to get the look of planets right
Wanna know the details? Then take a look at this.
Time at start of game – epoch
1/1/1950 at 13:00 UTC
How to play?
Press blue button that says "Download".
Make a new sandbox with the system.
Can I run it?
I suggest you download the system only if you have more than:
- 500MB of free space
- 4GB of RAM
If you don't, well... this system has a history of running slow on phones, crashing the game and causing loss to game data (even on the ones that exceed these specifications!).
System for lower end devices
I made a system with only the Sun, Earth and Moon, which should be a fair bit less intensive.
Why just "Solar System"?
Why do I call it just "Solar System" and not Real Solar System?
Because there's no such thing as solar systems. There's only one Solar System, and that is the one with "Sol", the Sun, in the middle.
Suggestions and Notes
Cape Canaveral can lag a lot; If it does, change the structure detail setting.
Medium detail removes the misc buildings around the Cape. Low detail removes all buildings with the exception of the VAB and launch locations, and those will have less detail.
Want the system to look as good as it can? Increase the cubemap texture setting, and LOD.
This makes a huge difference in views of planets from far away or in map view. The higher the setting the closer you'll be able to get before switching to LOD based rendering which is a lot blurrier. I wouldn't recommend going above Ultra, since Ultra is 8k you won't be revealing any more real detail. If you're able to, you can also increase LOD in the xml to a higher number, just set the settings to custom first.
The game's parts are intended for the 1/5 scale stock system.
To counteract annoyances caused by that, you can use the RSS Rebalance mod.
Star background is too dark for your liking even at 200% star brightness?
You can xml edit it, 1 is 100% in the xml, 2 is 200% etc.
Craft explodes upon being set on the launch pad?
Change the launch location to be higher in planet studio.
The latitude and longitude of each planet is accurate (based on geohack), and the correct side of every moon faces their parent planet.
Previous Versions
1.0 (10/17/2020) | 1.1 (10/29/2020) | 1.2 (11/15/2020)
1.3 (1/1/2021) | 1.4.1 (6/12/2021) | 1.5.3 (11/20/2021)
Credits to the people that made the source textures
Mercury, Io by FarGetaNik
Venus, Mars by John Van Vliet
Earth Clouds by Tom Patterson
Jupiter, Saturn, Io DEM, Europa by Björn Jónsson
Phobos, Ganymede, Callisto by Askaniy
Callisto DEM by Kexitt
Uranus, Neptune by Astra-Planetshine
GENERAL INFO
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- Created On: Windows
- Game Version: 1.1.107.0
CELESTIAL BODIES
| Name | Parent | Radius | Surface Gravity | Apoapsis | Periapsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 696.3 Mm | 274.0 m/s | - | - | |
| Mercury | Sun | 2,440 km | 3.7 m/s | 69,817.1 Mm | 46,001.3 Mm |
| Venus | Sun | 6,052 km | 8.9 m/s | 108,944.8 Mm | 107,473.1 Mm |
| Earth | Sun | 6,371 km | 9.8 m/s | 152,097.7 Mm | 147,098.1 Mm |
| Moon | Earth | 1,737 km | 1.6 m/s | 405.7 Mm | 363.1 Mm |
| Mars | Sun | 3,390 km | 3.7 m/s | 249,228.7 Mm | 206,644.5 Mm |
| Phobos | Mars | 11 km | 0.5 m/s | 9,522 km | 9,238 km |
| Deimos | Mars | 6,200 m | 0.0 m/s | 23,460 km | 23,460 km |
| Jupiter | Sun | 69,911 km | 24.8 m/s | 816,081.5 Mm | 740,742.6 Mm |
| Io | Jupiter | 1,822 km | 1.8 m/s | 423.5 Mm | 420.1 Mm |
| Europa | Jupiter | 1,561 km | 1.3 m/s | 677.4 Mm | 664.8 Mm |
| Ganymede | Jupiter | 2,634 km | 1.4 m/s | 1,071.8 Mm | 1,069.0 Mm |
| Callisto | Jupiter | 2,410 km | 1.2 m/s | 1,896.6 Mm | 1,868.8 Mm |
| Saturn | Sun | 58,232 km | 10.4 m/s | 1,503,983.4 Mm | 1,349,467.4 Mm |
| Uranus | Sun | 25,362 km | 8.9 m/s | 3,006,389.4 Mm | 2,735,555.0 Mm |
| Neptune | Sun | 24,622 km | 11.2 m/s | 4,536,874.3 Mm | 4,459,631.5 Mm |
@HyperPatch I meant a planetary system
Plz tell me how I do that
@HyperPatch I want to make a game so that every planet except the gas giants has a spaceport and post it.
so how do I do that?
Good thing i have enough ram on my phone to run this
When I use this system, I find that the solar battery power is zero, is this a bug?
@Randomlyexisting I have Realme, i think it will work.
@ZiziWorld ...if your running a samsung a14 you can use ram plus feature to get 8gb, I have 4gb by default, but I sacrificed some storage to get 8gb
@HyperPatch or do you have any other system which has All planets and moons, but it works on 4 GB ram Devices.
@HyperPatch but it has Earth and moon only, there is no Venus or Mars.
@ZiziWorld try this one first
Sorry if this has been asked, but would this ever be compatible with the career mode rather than sandbox, or is there a way to make that work? Would be so awesome.
Last time i downloaded the solar system 2.7 which is by SolarCompany, and it Crashed my game very badly, and till then I'm looking for new systems.
I have 5 or 4 GB ram and 9 GB free space, will this system work? Please let me know cuz this is very awesome looking and I wanna download it.
@Eddyviolin525 The most I can do is remove the darker rails since they're higher than the rest of the thing
When Titan?
Great job! however 39a and 39b is bugged because its not flat, sometimes 41 also glitches too. is there a possible fix coming in a future update? thanks
What is the lowest possible speed I can go while still maintaining orbit around Earth? I'm trying to Put together a custom made modular spaceship in orbit before speeding to some of the outer celestial bodies.
Heh.
(I can easily run 700 part creations, and I'm on mobile!)
(So as such, this wonderful star system won't lag meh out
@Ilovepoptarts Download the system, go into the main menu, hit “new game,” hit “sandbox” then change the system with the button.
How do I play it
can't wait to play this with Parallax, it would look amazing
Nice System. Runs well on my m2 iPad
Is it reasonable that the temperature of the Heat Shield even reached 8500 degrees Celsius when returning to Earth?
sad that juno will not render planets no matter the size at 300GM range i cant build a telescope and watch neptune from earth
Waiting for dwarf planets and moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, but other than that this system is proper amazing.
@AgsPratama yes, link. this is with all detail of the planets, just without the other planets. see if you can run this. I'll do a less detailed (3 body) system in the future hopefully