Scale planets, moons and suns up

[Optimus prime]

I think scaling the orbital objects like planets, moons and suns up by a factor of 2 or even more would look way better. I modded this myself and i like it a lot. Stations dont look as big as moons anymore and the planets look nice in the Background.

See pictures below:

 

[corny.1234]

Picture please

 

[Pete0714]

I don't know, I like the smaller look. Makes everything look a little more to scale in the systems. Planets being too big and close together in other games always bothered me. Imho though.

 

[Moonshadow101]

Seems like this would make them look less "real," and more like... I don't know, toys? Models?

 

[Optimus prime]

vanilla Stellaris with a random planet with asteroid belt:

with scaled up Planet (compare the station scales next to the planet):

vanilla Stellaris with gas giant and moon and stations:

with scaled up gas giant and moon (compare the station scales next to them):

 

[Optimus prime]

Seems like this would make them look less "real," and more like... I don't know, toys? Models?

No. I dont think so. More the opposite that actually all planets and stations feel just like representatives and toys. Thats why i changed it.

 

[Moonshadow101]

You're zooming in too much on the planets. The relevant factor here (to me, anyway) is how they look in relation to eachother in the system. Planets are supposed to be tiny specks in relation to the size of the system they're in.

 

[Optimus prime]

You're zooming in too much on the planets. The relevant factor here (to me, anyway) is how they look in relation to eachother in the system. Planets are supposed to be tiny specks in relation to the size of the system they're in.

You wont see a difference on my screenshots because i scaled the systems up too. Only objects like stations and ships are much smaler now... (distances between objects are bigger)

 

[Optimus prime]

In fact planets and other objects are even smaller than in vanilla on my side:


Vanilla Stellaris solar system:

With scaled up system and planets:

but this way ships need to fly a lot longer to get on the other side. I like it this way because its more realistic and a system feels like something huge instead of just an instance of something small. But I thought this would be only my opinion thats why I didnt suggested it. I would prefer it that way too!

 

[PG908]

Why not just scale the stations down?

 

[Optimus prime]

1. it is much more work to scale every single unit down (factor of 20-100 times more) because u have to scale every buildable unit (ships, stations, aliens).

2. the units would fly way too fast for their size and it would feel unrealistic.

3. u would need to scale weapon projectiles down as well, else a Missile would be half the size of a ship and so on.