[Mod] Immersive Galaxy - Planet variety

[__Dwaine__]

Immersive Galaxy - Planet Variety​

PDX textures for planets are great and well done, but they lack variety. All planets fell the same after a game or two, with little personality and color variance, the worse being the gas giants. Planet Variety aim to greatly enhance the visuals of Stellaris by bringing some much needed diversity for planets.

This mod brings 271 new textures for Arid, Desert, Savannah, Alpine, Arctic, Tundra, Continental, Ocean, Tropical, Gaïa, Tomb, Barren, Cold Barren, Frozen, Shielded, Toxic, Gas Giant, and Molten planets, as well as 35 new layers of clouds. This mod only add and do not replace any sotck textures.

The textures are very wanilla like and blend pretty well, habitable worlds will have night lights, molten will glow, etc ....

Spoiler: Changes

Changes are as follow :

Planet type / # Original texture / Total number of texture with mod / # Texture added by the mod
Habitable :
Dry :
Arid : 3 / 10 / +7
Desert : 3 / 10 / +7
Savannah : 2 / 10 / +8

Frozen :
Alpine : 2 / 10 / +8
Arctic : 3 / 10 / +7
Tundra : 3 / 10 / +7

Wet :
Continental : 5 / 15 / +10
Ocean : 3 / 10 / +7
Tropical : 3 / 15 / +12

Ideal :
Gaia : 1 / 5 / +4

Special :
Tomb : 1 / 10 / +9


Uninhabitable :
Barren : 4 / 45 / +41
Barren cold : 4 / 45 / +41
Frozen : 3 / 30 / +27
Gas giant : 6 / 60 / +54
Molten : 3 / 10 / +7
Shielded: 1 / 5 / +4
Toxic: 4 / 15 / +11

Spoiler: Visuals

The mod is completely save game compatible, however new textures will not appear in an old save, a frash start is mandatory. You can remove this mod anytime and the engine will take care of removing the new textures just fine, 0 worries with your precious saves.

This mod, as it stands, should NOT conflict with ANY other mod.
Planetary Diversity: Compatible, there is no conflict.
Planetary Diversity Reworked: Compatible, there is no conflict.
Real Space: Compatible, RS will overwrite several gas giants.
Real Sol Textures: Compatible, there is no conflict.

Ironman compatible

Achievment compatible.

Download:​

DDL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/oyatdkpzvmrqsme/Planet+Variety+V1.2.7z
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1085097357

Notes:​

This mod is pretty massive, be warned. It current size is almost ~2GO uncompressed (down from 4Go) and might not run well on some computers, if you're concerned, use the LITE version available on steam, which greatly help performance.

• 1.2:
  - New Toxic planets, 11 new planets added to the existing 4.
  - New Shielded planets, 4 new planets added to unique one.
  
• 1.1:
  Optimization:
  - Clouds cut down to 4K for diffuse, 2K for normal, and 1K for shadows (was mistakenly in 8K, should greatly improve performance).
  - Clouds texture variety down, from 35 to 15.
  - Base mod size down to 210 Mo (from 1500 Mo).
  
  Various :
  - Clouds entirely redone, they're more aesthetically pleasing with more transparency.
  - Tomb world variety now 10 (was 6).
  - Made some planet packs standalone (barren, cold barren, molten, gas giant & tomb).
  - Renamed textures to enhance mod compatibility.
  - Save game enabler available, to put new texture on a old save.
  - Lite version released, half the textures for less powerful computers.

Stellaris wiki
PDX forums

Tools used:
Space engine
Gimp
Gimp normal map plugin
Photoshop CS6
Nasalization font
Substance designer
DDS Converter
PDX tools
GifCam

 

[ATP Kraken]

I never thought Space Engine would make planet textures that mesh with the originals, but this is an awesome mod!

 

[__Dwaine__]

Here are some gifs to have a better idea.
Warning, this is very heavy and will probably slow down your browser.

Spoiler: Gifs WARNING ! VERY HEAVY !

I never thought Space Engine would make planet textures that mesh with the originals, but this is an awesome mod!

They do, no tri planar work necessary, but most textures require som heavy rework, and molten planets have been made pretty much from scratch. Some paradox mesh are pretty weird around the pole though ...

 

[Armandeus]

This is super awesome, but can we please also have a 2K texture version? I think that would be more than enough to make the small planet graphics look nice without the video memory overhead of 4K.

 

[__Dwaine__]

It already is in 2K, except the normal for clouds, which are 4K just like PDX stock one. Full 4K would make this mod 30Go in a rough estimate.

 

[Arnovitz]

Impressive work. Any chance you might try to create some extra toxic worlds?

 

[logan09]

Impressive work. Any chance you might try to create some extra toxic worlds?

Yes, author said he will consider it:

To do:
Currently trying to make new asteroids and new rings, but the game is having none of it. I'm also considering doing some new shielded, toxic, and infested planets, as well as remaking the clouds

 

[greyborea]

Great mod, thank you.

 

[__Dwaine__]

Updated, v1.1 cut down the size by 2, to ~2Go, I realize some have difficulites runing this mod, it's pretty demanding, so I've made a LITE version, available on steam.

Impressive work. Any chance you might try to create some extra toxic worlds?

I'm trying to do new shielded ATM, but the results are not satisfactory, new toxic are on their way for 1.2, I think I can forget new rings however, and asteroids will be a tough one too.

 

[__Dwaine__]

V1.2 is out, I've added some shielded (4) and toxic planets (11). Here are 2 gif to give an idea:

With this, I consider this mod finished, all PDX planets have been revisited. I drop the asteroid stuff, too much 3D for me, and it's impossible to add new rings as of now.

If anyone is interested to have custom textures for your mod, please contact me.

 

[greyborea]

Thanks again!

 

[__Dwaine__]

I've made an 8K version of my mod: DDL or STEAM
It is primarly aimed at the ongoing stellaris movie competition, and should NOT be used for normal gameplay. You can try it if you're interested/curious in high res textures.
A few screens to see the level of details:

Spoiler: BIG screenshots

 

[Leylos]

Big fan of the mod. Any chance you could update your mediafire link to include the latest content?

I'm not playing the game on steam, so this would help a lot.


Thanks!

 

[zonkie]

Immersive Galaxy - Planet Variety​

PDX textures for planets are great and well done, but they lack variety. All planets fell the same after a game or two, with little personality and color variance, the worse being the gas giants. Planet Variety aim to greatly enhance the visuals of Stellaris by bringing some much needed diversity for planets.

This mod brings 271 new textures for Arid, Desert, Savannah, Alpine, Arctic, Tundra, Continental, Ocean, Tropical, Gaïa, Tomb, Barren, Cold Barren, Frozen, Shielded, Toxic, Gas Giant, and Molten planets, as well as 35 new layers of clouds. This mod only add and do not replace any sotck textures.

The textures are very wanilla like and blend pretty well, habitable worlds will have night lights, molten will glow, etc ....

Spoiler: Changes

Changes are as follow :

Planet type / # Original texture / Total number of texture with mod / # Texture added by the mod
Habitable :
Dry :
Arid : 3 / 10 / +7
Desert : 3 / 10 / +7
Savannah : 2 / 10 / +8

Frozen :
Alpine : 2 / 10 / +8
Arctic : 3 / 10 / +7
Tundra : 3 / 10 / +7

Wet :
Continental : 5 / 15 / +10
Ocean : 3 / 10 / +7
Tropical : 3 / 15 / +12

Ideal :
Gaia : 1 / 5 / +4

Special :
Tomb : 1 / 10 / +9


Uninhabitable :
Barren : 4 / 45 / +41
Barren cold : 4 / 45 / +41
Frozen : 3 / 30 / +27
Gas giant : 6 / 60 / +54
Molten : 3 / 10 / +7
Shielded: 1 / 5 / +4
Toxic: 4 / 15 / +11

Spoiler: Visuals

The mod is completely save game compatible, however new textures will not appear in an old save, a frash start is mandatory. You can remove this mod anytime and the engine will take care of removing the new textures just fine, 0 worries with your precious saves.

This mod, as it stands, should NOT conflict with ANY other mod.
Planetary Diversity: Compatible, there is no conflict.
Planetary Diversity Reworked: Compatible, there is no conflict.
Real Space: Compatible, RS will overwrite several gas giants.
Real Sol Textures: Compatible, there is no conflict.

Ironman compatible

Achievment compatible.

Download:​

DDL: http://www.mediafire.com/file/oyatdkpzvmrqsme/Planet+Variety+V1.2.7z
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1085097357

Notes:​

This mod is pretty massive, be warned. It current size is almost ~2GO uncompressed (down from 4Go) and might not run well on some computers, if you're concerned, use the LITE version available on steam, which greatly help performance.

• 1.2:
  - New Toxic planets, 11 new planets added to the existing 4.
  - New Shielded planets, 4 new planets added to unique one.
  
• 1.1:
  Optimization:
  - Clouds cut down to 4K for diffuse, 2K for normal, and 1K for shadows (was mistakenly in 8K, should greatly improve performance).
  - Clouds texture variety down, from 35 to 15.
  - Base mod size down to 210 Mo (from 1500 Mo).
  
  Various :
  - Clouds entirely redone, they're more aesthetically pleasing with more transparency.
  - Tomb world variety now 10 (was 6).
  - Made some planet packs standalone (barren, cold barren, molten, gas giant & tomb).
  - Renamed textures to enhance mod compatibility.
  - Save game enabler available, to put new texture on a old save.
  - Lite version released, half the textures for less powerful computers.

Stellaris wiki
PDX forums

Tools used:
Space engine
Gimp
Gimp normal map plugin
Photoshop CS6
Nasalization font
Substance designer
DDS Converter
PDX tools
GifCam

Incredible looking.