Planet Art In Background While In Space

[Kitten Soufflé]

Loving the DLC but was a bit disappointed by not seeing the planet your platform/you are in orbit of when in space or arriving to said planet in the background. Felt like an accomplishment to reach the new planet and then.... nothing. Just more space with some slow rocks freely floating in the vacuum. Maybe the devs felt it would be too distracting or visually intense? I dunno but the planet art we do have from things like the space map look quite good already. Felt like a missed opportunity and wanted to share in case anyone else felt the same.

[Ålgerben]

If not in the base game, then I would really like the ability to add that with mods. I saw that the space background has parallax, so it should be easy to implement.

[Kitten Soufflé]

Yeah did a quick search on the factorio mods website before making this suggestion but Space Age may just be too young for it to exist yet. Was surprised because it felt like an obvious step to take for immersion.

[Chindraba]

There are mods, however, which add things to the space background, so it's possible, just nobody had chosen planetary images as the background. Yet.

[Galileus]

Originally posted by Ålgerben:

so it should be easy to implement.

What happens when you leave the planet, and then immedietly go back? Does the image teleport? That would work with a mod, not so with vanilla. I suspect there's tons of cases like that that need to be considered.

If it was easy, we likely would have it in game :)

[Kitten Soufflé]

Dunno if my post inspired anyone but someone DID make a mod for just what I had suggested:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/visible-planets

[Ålgerben]

Originally posted by Kitten Soufflé:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/visible-planets

I took a look at that mod, and although it's a pretty good attempt, it lacks the parallax to make it look decent in my opinion. The planet to space and space to planet transition isn't great either, but that's a minor issue compared to the lack of parallax.

[Judge Dread]

Originally posted by Kitten Soufflé:

Dunno if my post inspired anyone but someone DID make a mod for just what I had suggested:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/visible-planets

It's just an upscaled icon that looks really bad. Especially if you have a larger platform, the clipping makes it look horrendous.

[Kitten Soufflé]

https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1h4teln/visible_planets_in_space_mod_includes_parallax/
Its happening people!
Exists as a mod now but the author hopes to get it into the base Space mod for the game that comes with Space Age!

[creamcone]

Originally posted by Kitten Soufflé:

https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1h4teln/visible_planets_in_space_mod_includes_parallax/
Its happening people!
Exists as a mod now but the author hopes to get it into the base Space mod for the game that comes with Space Age!

I am disappointed with the planet presentation and the way they zoom out when leaving, IMO it should be just vertical movement away from the planet. I am instantly reminded of another game - Starsector. When you approach a planet, it slowly rotates, with a visible atmosphere. Best part? It's all done with just one object and 2 looping textures.