Can you add the options from “Visible Planets in Space Settings” to this mod so that we can also choose different planet textures from the other mods?

Hello PatrickBlack,

Unfortunately that old mod is incompatible with the new system; because it overrides / removes the assets. The option you suggested must be added by that mod.

Please see this FAQ answer,

Can I use 2.0 "Visible Planets in Space" together with this?

Currently, no. Because Visible Planets in Space disables/removes the new planet models this mod is altering. Until that is fixed in the future, activate only one mod for the time being.

If you have any suggestions about how to make these two mods compatible, I will try to implement that functionality but I couldn't find a viable way.

Thank you for your interest.

Best Regards.

That’s too bad.
Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about modding.

I thought that since your description says this mod includes the ability to choose different sprites, maybe you could expand that feature so we can still select planet graphics from other mods as we did before.
In my uninformed imagination, it would be “just” an expansion of the selectable sources for the background graphics. 😅

But I think I just realized why that doesn't work.
After all, you also mention that there are no images in equirectangular projection of the planetary graphics used so far.

You are right, the main problem is that special projection method.

I'm not a good visual designer unfortunately so I don't have any good looking pictures for planets done myself.

I asked YAPR's owner if they would like to re-produce their designs based on the new method. You can see our dialog here;
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/YAPR/discussion/6a3692b74bb19a9f0c049d54

Maybe in the future anyone is interested, I'll gladly help.