you go really far, thanks for the new tex btw, started some myself based on photographs.

two factors are important to do that i think, first which planet "design" is called by the game (FFE), and 2nd how the texture is been applied to it by FFED3D. planet design is important because there is only a limited palette of planets you can choose from. textures used by FFED3D are important to create the right surface look for the planet you choose, sadly the original FFE program uses a even more limited set of textures to generate a planets surface.

very similar to original Frontier where you have no textures for planets only changing colors and 4 basic types; bare planetoid, clouded, earthlike, gasgiant (though a few different in each cat.).

io in FFE:

[attachment=101:io - FFE.jpg]

io in FE2:

[attachment=100:io - FE2.jpg]

yes the FE2 predefinied io looks much better, i have to check that out, but i can't promise anything, further i can only edit the FFE part in the game (FFED3D).

yes but what bothers me is that in reality we just do not see the ground of Vénus io and titan because of their athmosphere. (no see craters)

I know how to change its 3 planets ... just be that some people have already done ...

thanks in advance...

You would have to fiddle with the atmosphere tex,but IIRC theres only one in FFE3D and you

would problerly end up changing all of the planets atmos. ❓

i wonder if they completely replaced the call for atmosphere from FFE, or still use the original setup, it seem's like it is not so. i can hardly change the look of any predefinied planet by changing the model of it, but i have to proof that more.

i encountered that in FFE venus is set to model #123 but if you look at the code you miss the call for a atmosphere 😕

but you can set it to model #128 which represents a planet with water weather system and a corrosive atmosphere, which has the commands for a atmosphere.

but if i remember it right venus is one planet you can't land on? atmosphere will be surface? if you look at the code it has to be that way (i think the russians forgot that venus has a very thick atmosphere, high "air" pressure and a high surface temperature, just because they managed it to land a capsule for a few seconds 😆 ).

but i'm still not shure how FFED3D will handle it, needs more tests.

further io is set in FE2 to model #130 (no name in FFE) in FFE it's #122 (highly volcanic world) i wonder what happens if...... or maybe i'm wrong, it has a atmosphere (#130) and a very bright grey color? venus?

Thanks,

modified software with which you file ? please ?

i played around with FFED3D's planets and discovered that it manages the planets & stars separate from the other objects, different to FFE (&JJFFE) anyway. all atmosphere layers are inverted to FFE (JJFFE), or showing just one side, i think. that's why we see no atmosphere for venus and all gas giants and cloud covered planets, if you fly close you can see the common ffed3d sky above the horizon (like earth) because default sky texture is for all atmospheres. the original clouds have been cancelled to i think.

i found no real solution so far 🙁 , only that you can remove (disable) the texture for venus' (all of type model#123) surface (tex712), and it will revert somewhat close to the original look, but all planets using tex712 will lose there texture therefore to.

if you like the original look & colors of all planets, disable tex699, tex700, and tex711 - tex719.

of course you will loose all the higher detailed textures for all planets for distant view, anyway in closeup even ffed3d reverts to the original tesselated surface so it's not a big loss imo.

the models for the stars and planets have been replaced internally, so it has no use to load anything into a planets specific models folder except effect.fx.

use this example and put it into any planet models folder to enhance shading,

shader for internal models (effect.fx):