Planet Backdrops Scale

by jurgy

Adds automatic scaling to the planets backdrops based on their gravity and increases or reduces the rotation speed based on their day/night cycle duration.

Tweaks
6 days ago
2.0 - 2.1
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Changelog

Version: 1.5.0
Date: 2026-08-25
  Features:
    - Updated for 2.1. No longer requires Visible Planets in Space.
Version: 1.4.1
Date: 2026-01-21
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash when a planet's day/night cycle is 0
    - Fixed Visible Planets dependency version
Version: 1.4.0
Date: 2026-01-18
  Features:
    - Added planet rotation speed multiplier based on their day/night cylce duration relative to Nauvis. This can be disabled with a startup setting.
Version: 1.3.1
Date: 2025-11-22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash during startup when planet doesn't have a starmap icon
Version: 1.3.0
Date: 2025-11-22
  Features:
    - Moons are now also scaled properly and shifted so they don't fall behind large planets.
Version: 1.2.0
Date: 2025-05-03
  Features:
    - Will now skip setting planet scale when another mod has already set the scale before it. Fixes issue where around Cerys Fulgora is rendered twice.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 2024-12-29
  Features:
    - Added blacklist which other modders can use the exclude their planets
  Locale:
    - Added mod name and description to the english locale
  Changes:
    - Added minimum and maximum scale settings.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2024-12-29
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash when a planet's surface_properties weren't defined
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2024-12-28
  Features:
    - Added thumbnail
    - Initial release