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I read that support had dropped for 1.7.10. I figured it relates to all version, however, since it seems to be a property of Stellar Sky's atmosphere.. I went and watched the youtube videos that discuss config setup but they didn't cover atmospheric height, etc.

To answer your questions regarding other mods, I'm using quite a few, though that is not a problem in and of itself. I'm using the Weather2 mod, which is responsible for the whispy clouds in the screenshots. I'm also using Hardcore darkness (and have Minimum_Sky_Render_Brightness in Stellar Sky set to 0. I want my nights to be dark). I'm also using Fastcraft, but have tried with and without it. I've tried with and without hardcore darkness and Weather2 as well. None of those mods affect the apparent whiteness on the horizon. Stellar Sky does.

The "whiteness" I'm seeing of objects on or near the horizon seems to come from Stellar Sky's atmosphere. It's highly likely that Stellar Sky already includes settings that can adjust the white band I'm seeing. I'm just asking for help to understand those settings so I know how I ought to set them.

I noticed a definite relationship between the "whiteness" of objects on the horizon and altitude. Sorry to give more screenshots but I really think they describe the issue better than I can. My best effort to explain what I'm seeing is that you have removed Vanilla fog and (possibly?) replaced it with a spherical atmosphere in Stellar Sky. You've added options such as total Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius, but I'm not sure how to best adjust those options so that the arc of this atmosphere extends just beyond my current view distance (which is 12).

The following screenshots were taken in ascending altitude, starting from y=90, up to y=140. As I ascend, the white band gets nearer until, at y=125, the whiteness covers everything below me. As I continue to ascend, the white recedes. By y=140, it has returned to it's starting place on the horizon. It seems I have now "left the atmosphere", although the clouds added by Weather2 are still above me. I would like for the Stellar Sky atmosphere to be at about the same height as these clouds, if possible. This thing I'm calling "whiteness" is very similar to the behaviour of Vanilla fog.

See how the trees and landscape in the distance look a greyish white? Those features remain the same colour at night, as you can see from my previous post.

Here's a screenshot taken with Stellar Sky and Stellar Api removed (but otherwise all the same mods), to highlight the difference between Vanilla Fog and what I'm seeing in Stellar Sky.

It might not seem like a big deal. The Vanilla fog effectively just reduces my view distance. Importantly, at night, that fog darkens to black

Actually.. I may have stumbled onto the answer. I wanted to start the game up to get screenshots taken at night, with and without Stellar Sky. Before starting up with Stellar Sky, I changed config settings to double Atmosphere_Height_Increase_Scale and Atmosphere_Scale_Height. At this point I'm just trying anything.

            # Determine whether or not hide objects under horizon.
            B:Hide_Objects_Under_Horizon=true

            # Scale Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
            # This determines the thickness of the atmosphere.
            D:Atmosphere_Scale_Height=0.00250

            # Total Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
            # This determines the accuracy of the atmosphere, relative to the scale height.
            D:Atmosphere_Total_Height=0.015

            # Height on horizon in the Atmosphere, in Scale Height unit.
            D:Atmosphere_Height_Offset=0.1

            # Increase scale of height in the atmosphere, with Default 1.0.
            D:Atmosphere_Height_Increase_Scale=2.0

            # Extinction Factor for RVB(or RGB) of the atmosphere,affects both sky rendering and extinction of stellar objects.
            D:Sky_Extinction_Factors <
                0.1
                0.2
                0.3
             >

            # Determine whether or not apply the atmospheric refraction.
            B:Allow_Atmospheric_Refraction=true

            # Relative amount of sunlight on the dimension.
            # Setting this to 0.0 will make the world very dark.
            D:SunLight_Multiplier=1.0

            # Relative strength of sky dispersion on the dimension.
            # The effect is similar with sunlight multiplier on client, but usually don't affect the server, e.g. do not spawn mobs.
            D:Sky_Dispersion_Rate=0.2

            # Relative strength of light pollution on the dimension.
            # Only affects the sky color and visibility of stars/milky way.
            D:Light_Pollution_Rate=0.5

            # Minimum brightness of skylight which (only) affects the rendering.
            D:Minimum_Sky_Render_Brightness=0.0

            # Whether landscape rendering on this world is enabled.
            B:Landscape_Enabled=false

The results:

So now I'm fully ready to move on to the observational tasks (using Photoptics). Thanks for your reply regarding that on Curse. That's brilliant. I'm trying to recreate the observations of Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Cook, etc. I have advanced maps and an atlas to add as a reward there. Other observational tasks will allow for progression in Galacticraft. But I also have a little trick that allows me to display a minimap only when a certain item (GPS) is in the player's hotbar. The best observational task I can think of for this would be a satellite. Something in a semi-synchronous orbit would be ideal. Is it possible to create a satellite in your celestial objects, I wonder? Is that something I can do?

Finally, I understand I may need to make an additional pack in the latest version of MC to take full advantage of your mods going forward. That is on my todo list, however I'm still working in 1.7.10 for now, as many of the other educational mods (including Reika's Rotarycraft, Reactorcraft, Electricraft) are still in 1.7.10. I'm very impressed with the tools you currently have, though. They could keep me going for a long time yet. Thanks again

Quote from Sebas875mine»

How do I set up stellar sky for sunrise is at 6:00 and sunset at 18:00?

That's going to depend on tick offset and longitude. This video should help

If someone can help me, my problem's related to latitude. I want to be in the Southern Hemisphere as I love the southern skies. I did have it working by setting my latitude to -27.5, however it's now no longer working. I wondered if it was perhaps because I had a negative longitude. I tried changing that and it made no difference. Now I'm very confused. I'd hoped to get the game to start:

• at sunrise
• in the southern hemisphere at 27.5 degrees South
• with the time of year in spring or early summer, given a year length of 208 days.

I was so proud of myself having worked all this out in a test world. Then I transferred the settings, started my game ..and only after a few days, I noticed that the milky way looked like it's sad Northern counterpart. Sure enough, I recreated the world in creative mode, flew up to where I could peer over the horizon, and I saw the beautiful Southern arm of the Milky Way that I was hoping to have above me. I'm definitely able to switch between summer and winter, using the negative latitude (Yes, I'm changing latitude. Not axial tilt). So at this stage I'm just terribly confused.

Edit- My working hypothesis as to the cause of my Northern latitude (despite my Southern config settings) is that I was recreating the world that was created with latitude 0. When creating a new wold from scratch, using my same settings, I get the Southern skies back.

This means I will have to restart my world - 6 days in - but at least I get my skies back

Another Edit: Further testing and now I suspect year length is the cause. That's how baffled I am. I know it doesn't make sense, but I alter the year length to 208, start a new world (using just Stellar Sky and Stellar api) and I get Northern Skies. Put the year length back to 365, start a new world and I get Southern Skies. I'm feeling like a complete mathtard here. There's no way that could be the reason. Has anyone else encountered this?

Quote from Sebas875mine»

How do I set up stellar sky for sunrise is at 6:00 and sunset at 18:00?

Quote from Dulciphi»

That's going to depend on tick offset and longitude. This video should help

If someone can help me, my problem's related to latitude. I want to be in the Southern Hemisphere as I love the southern skies. I did have it working by setting my latitude to -27.5, however it's now no longer working. I wondered if it was perhaps because I had a negative longitude. I tried changing that and it made no difference. Now I'm very confused. I'd hoped to get the game to start:

• at sunrise
• in the southern hemisphere at 27.5 degrees South
• with the time of year in spring or early summer, given a year length of 208 days.

I was so proud of myself having worked all this out in a test world. Then I transferred the settings, started my game ..and only after a few days, I noticed that the milky way looked like it's sad Northern counterpart. Sure enough, I recreated the world in creative mode, flew up to where I could peer over the horizon, and I saw the beautiful Southern arm of the Milky Way that I was hoping to have above me. I'm definitely able to switch between summer and winter, using the negative latitude (Yes, I'm changing latitude. Not axial tilt). So at this stage I'm just terribly confused.

Edit- My working hypothesis as to the cause of my Northern latitude (despite my Southern config settings) is that I was recreating the world that was created with latitude 0. When creating a new wold from scratch, using my same settings, I get the Southern skies back.

This means I will have to restart my world - 6 days in - but at least I get my skies back

Another Edit: Further testing and now I suspect year length is the cause. That's how baffled I am. I know it doesn't make sense, but I alter the year length to 208, start a new world (using just Stellar Sky and Stellar api) and I get Northern Skies. Put the year length back to 365, start a new world and I get Southern Skies. I'm feeling like a complete mathtard here. There's no way that could be the reason. Has anyone else encountered this?

Quote from bestatpokemon151»

hey, i have a question: is it normal that the sun is setting at 4pm and rising at 1am? here's my config for celestial skies (inside .minecraft>config>stellarsky)

# Configuration file

##########################################################################################################
# clientconfig
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for client modifications.
# Most of them are for rendering/view.
##########################################################################################################

clientconfig {
# Limit of magnitude can be seen on naked eye.
# If you want to increase FPS, lower the Mag_Limit.
# (Realistic = 6.5, Default = 6.0)
# The lower you set it, the fewer stars you will see
# but the better FPS you will get
D:Mag_Limit=1.0

##########################################################################################################
# atmosphere
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for the atmosphere accuracy.
##########################################################################################################

atmosphere {
# Level of atmosphere cache texture size. Less level will increase FPS, but the atmosphere will become EXPONENTIALLY defective.
I:Atmosphere_Cache_Level=9

# Atmosphere is drawn with fragments
# Less fragments will increase FPS, but the atmosphere will become more defective.
I:Atmosphere_Fragment_Number=128

# Enabling this will interpolate texture for better view, but there could be some trivial issues like 'black line' with this.
B:Atmosphere_Interpolation=false
}

##########################################################################################################
# milkyway
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for milky way.
##########################################################################################################

milkyway {
# Brightness of milky way.
# For real world it should be much lower than 1.0, but default is set to 1.5 for visual effect.
D:Milkyway_Brightness=0.5

# Milky way is drawn with fragments
# Less fragments will increase FPS, but the milky way will become more defective
I:Milkyway_Fragments_Number=10
}

##########################################################################################################
# solarsystem
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for solar system.
##########################################################################################################

solarsystem {
# Surfaces of Sun & Moon is drawn with fragments
# Less fragments will increase FPS, but the moon will become more defective
I:Moon_Fragments_Number=14
}

##########################################################################################################
# landscape
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for Landscape.
##########################################################################################################

landscape {
# Number of fragments of landscape in direction of height.Less fragments will increase FPS, but the landscape will become more defective
I:Landscape_Fragments_Number=14
}

##########################################################################################################
# display
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for additional display.
##########################################################################################################

display {

##########################################################################################################
# horizontal_coordinate_grid
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for Display of Horizontal Coordinate Grid.
##########################################################################################################

horizontal_coordinate_grid {
# Set to true to enable display of horizontal coordinate grid.
B:Display_Enabled=false

# Alpha(Brightness) of the display.
D:Display_Alpha=0.05

# Number of fragments of display grids in direction of height.
I:Display_Fragments_Number=16

# Set to true to enable display of horizon.
B:Display_Horizon_Enabled=true

# Set to true to enable display of horizontal grid.
B:Display_Grid_Enabled=true

# Base color factor, the grid tends to have this color as base.
D:Display_Base_Color <
0.25
0.25
0.5
>

# Color factor for height, the grid tends to have this color when height gets bigger.
D:Display_Height_Color <
0.0
0.0
1.0
>

# Color factor for azimuth(horizontal position), the grid tends to have this color when azimuth gets bigger.
D:Display_Azimuth_Color <
0.5
0.5
0.0
>
}

##########################################################################################################
# equatorial_coordinate_grid
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for Display of Equatorial Coordinate Grid.
##########################################################################################################

equatorial_coordinate_grid {
# Set to true to enable display of equatorial coordinates.
B:Display_Enabled=true

# Alpha(Brightness) of the display.
D:Display_Alpha=0.05

# Number of fragments of display grids in horizontal direction.
I:Display_Fragments_Number=16

# Set to true to enable display of equator.
B:Display_Equator_Enabled=true

# Set to true to enable display of equatorial grid.
B:Display_Grid_Enabled=true

# Base color factor, the grid tends to have this color as base.
D:Display_Base_Color <
0.5
0.25
0.25
>

# Color factor for declination, the grid tends to have this color when declination gets bigger.
D:Display_Declination_Color <
0.0
0.5
0.5
>

# Color factor for right ascension, the grid tends to have this color when right ascension gets bigger.
D:Display_Right_Ascension_Color <
1.0
0.0
0.0
>
}

##########################################################################################################
# ecliptic_coordinate_grid
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for Display of ecliptictal Coordinate Grid.
##########################################################################################################

ecliptic_coordinate_grid {
# Set to true to enable display of ecliptictal coordinates.
B:Display_Enabled=false

# Alpha(Brightness) of the display.
D:Display_Alpha=0.05

# Number of fragments of display grids in direction of latitude.
I:Display_Fragments_Number=16

# Set to true to enable display of ecliptic.
B:Display_Ecliptic_Enabled=true

# Set to true to enable display of ecliptictal grid.
B:Display_Grid_Enabled=true

# Base color factor, the grid tends to have this color as base.
D:Display_Base_Color <
0.5
0.5
0.0
>

# Color factor for latitude, the grid tends to have this color when latitude gets bigger.
D:Display_Latitude_Color <
1.0
0.0
0.0
>

# Color factor for longitude, the grid tends to have this color when longitude gets bigger.
D:Display_Longitude_Color <
0.0
1.0
0.0
>
}

}

##########################################################################################################
# optics
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configuration for Optical settings.
##########################################################################################################

optics {
# Brightness Contrast determines the contrast between bright stars and faint stars. The bigger the value, the less difference between bright stars and faint stars. Real world (minimum) = 1.0. Default = 2.0 for visual effect.
D:Brightness_Contrast=1.0

# Degree of the twinkling effect of star.
# It determines the turbulance of atmosphere, which actually cause the twinkling effect. The greater the value, the more the stars will twinkle. Default is 1.0. To disable set to 0.0
D:"Twinkling(Turbulance)"=1.0

# Sprite Scale determines the size of stars and planets. The bigger the value, the fuzzier stars/planets gets. Real world = 1.0. Default = 0.8 for visual effect.
D:Sprite_Scale=0.8
}

}

##########################################################################################################
# serverconfig
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for server modifications.
##########################################################################################################

serverconfig {
# Enables Server-Side Sky change.
B:Server_Enabled=true

# Length of a day, in a tick.
D:Day_Length=24000.0

# Length of a year, in a day.
D:Year_Length=365.0

# Year offset on world starting time.
I:Year_Offset=0

# Day offset on world starting time.
I:Day_Offset=0

# Tick offset on world starting time.
D:Tick_Offset=0.0

# Axial tilt in degrees. Always 0.0 when Server_Enabled is false.
D:Axial_Tilt=23.5

# Precession in degrees per year.
D:Precession=0.0

##########################################################################################################
# solarsystem
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for solar system.
##########################################################################################################

solarsystem {
# Size of moon. (Default size is 1.0)
# Note that the default size is 4 times bigger than realistic size.
D:Moon_Size=0.25

# Brightness of moon. (Default brightness is 1.0)
D:Moon_Brightness=1.0
}

##########################################################################################################
# dimension
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for Dimension Settings.
##########################################################################################################

dimension {
# Dimensions which will get applied the stellar sky settings.
S:Applied_Dimensions <
Overworld
The End
>

##########################################################################################################
# overworld
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for this dimension.
##########################################################################################################

overworld {
# Determine whether or not patch provider. Cannot adjust longitude and latitude when this is false.
B:Patch_Provider=true

# Sky renderer type for this dimension.
# There are 'Overworld Sky', 'End Sky' type by default.
S:Sky_Renderer_Type=Overworld Sky

# Latitude on this world, in Degrees.
D:Latitude=60.0

# Longitude on this world, in Degrees. (East is +)
D:Longitude=25.0

# Determine whether or not hide objects under horizon.
B:Hide_Objects_Under_Horizon=true

# Scale Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
# This determines the thickness of the atmosphere.
D:Atmosphere_Scale_Height=0.00125

# Total Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
# This determines the accuracy of the atmosphere, relative to the scale height.
D:Atmosphere_Total_Height=0.025

# Height on horizon in the Atmosphere, in Scale Height unit.
D:Atmosphere_Height_Offset=0.2

# Increase scale of height in the atmosphere, with Default 1.0.
D:Atmosphere_Height_Increase_Scale=1.0

# Extinction Factor for RVB(or RGB) of the atmosphere,affects both sky rendering and extinction of stellar objects.
D:Sky_Extinction_Factors <
0.1
0.2
0.3
>

# Determine whether or not apply the atmospheric refraction.
B:Allow_Atmospheric_Refraction=true

# Relative amount of sunlight on the dimension.
# Setting this to 0.0 will make the world very dark.
D:SunLight_Multiplier=1.0

# Relative strength of sky dispersion on the dimension.
# The effect is similar with sunlight multiplier on client, but usually don't affect the server, e.g. do not spawn mobs.
D:Sky_Dispersion_Rate=1.0

# Relative strength of light pollution on the dimension.
# Only affects the sky color and visibility of stars/milky way.
D:Light_Pollution_Rate=1.0

# Minimum brightness of skylight which (only) affects the rendering.
D:Minimum_Sky_Render_Brightness=0.2

# Whether landscape rendering on this world is enabled.
B:Landscape_Enabled=false
}

##########################################################################################################
# the end
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configurations for this dimension.
##########################################################################################################

"the end" {
# Determine whether or not patch provider. Cannot adjust longitude and latitude when this is false.
B:Patch_Provider=true

# Sky renderer type for this dimension.
# There are 'Overworld Sky', 'End Sky' type by default.
S:Sky_Renderer_Type=End Sky

# Latitude on this world, in Degrees.
D:Latitude=-52.5

# Longitude on this world, in Degrees. (East is +)
D:Longitude=180.0

# Determine whether or not hide objects under horizon.
B:Hide_Objects_Under_Horizon=false

# Scale Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
# This determines the thickness of the atmosphere.
D:Atmosphere_Scale_Height=0.00125

# Total Height of the atmosphere relative to the radius.
# This determines the accuracy of the atmosphere, relative to the scale height.
D:Atmosphere_Total_Height=0.025

# Height on horizon in the Atmosphere, in Scale Height unit.
D:Atmosphere_Height_Offset=0.2

# Increase scale of height in the atmosphere, with Default 1.0.
D:Atmosphere_Height_Increase_Scale=1.0

# Extinction Factor for RVB(or RGB) of the atmosphere,affects both sky rendering and extinction of stellar objects.
D:Sky_Extinction_Factors <
0.0
0.0
0.0
>

# Determine whether or not apply the atmospheric refraction.
B:Allow_Atmospheric_Refraction=false

# Relative amount of sunlight on the dimension.
# Setting this to 0.0 will make the world very dark.
D:SunLight_Multiplier=1.0

# Relative strength of sky dispersion on the dimension.
# The effect is similar with sunlight multiplier on client, but usually don't affect the server, e.g. do not spawn mobs.
D:Sky_Dispersion_Rate=0.0

# Relative strength of light pollution on the dimension.
# Only affects the sky color and visibility of stars/milky way.
D:Light_Pollution_Rate=1.0

# Minimum brightness of skylight which (only) affects the rendering.
D:Minimum_Sky_Render_Brightness=0.3

# Whether landscape rendering on this world is enabled.
B:Landscape_Enabled=false
}

}

}

some important things are that i set my latitude to 60 and my longitude to 25, axis tilt 23.5, 24000 tick days and 365.0 day years.

it feels wrong because it seems like its supposed to be winter since it sets at 4pm, but the night isn't very long since it rises again at 1am...

Astral Sorcery will do it, since it replaces the sky renderer.

There is a setting in the astral config file that allows you to override the default behavior, at first glance it seems to work, but I have not tried to play any of the astral sorcery content while using this setting yet.

# IF a dimensionId is listed in 'skySupportedDimensions' you can add it here to keep its sky render, but AS will try to render only constellations on top of its existing sky render. [default: ]
S:weakSkyRenders <

0
>

Updated for MC 1.12.

1.12
Needs

Edit: well forgot to deal with issues here. Please post it again if it is still happening, and you'll be able to get the help. Thanks.

Edit2: please let me know if this mod is leggy with the default config settings. Thanks!

Glad you like it!

I'll be working on Stellarium after overhaul of Stellar API. Rendering & Configuration part (of celestial objects) will be worked first, and exploration part will be the next. It could take time, but I guarantee it to be realistic, incomparable with either Galacticraft or Advanced Rocketry!