Alien skies – Procedural sky colors overhaul for visions

Alien skies – Procedural sky colors overhaul for visions

Alien skies – Procedural sky colors overhaul for visions

Alien skies – Procedural sky colors overhaul for visions

This mod adds 12000 new sky/weather color palletes tables to the game , that are generated using carefully controlled procedural generation.it does not include any RNG based color generation.

SOME FEATURES:

1)This mod allows multicolor skies, day time specific colors, sunrise/sunset specfic colors and more.
2)It also restores several of the colors that got lost with atlas rises and before.
3)Overall it includes 12000 colors that make the (dawn and day)skies truly alien and colorful.
4)clouds are also sometimes colored to match the planet and skies.
5)some planets have lighting based on star color too.
6)Fog colors during storms, height fog, distance fog etc are all thematically colored based on sky coloring too, giving beautiful visual asthetics.
7)the more you travel, the better your chance of finding these type of colored skies.
8)you can visually see the general shade a planet’s atmosphere will have when you see it from space.

NOTE:currently it does not affect night sky colors.

This mod is part of my Project Atlas Universe Generator for No Man’s Sky. To know what Project Atlas is , check this reddit post that contains details about it.

Introducing Project Atlas: Your very own Procedural Universe generator for No Man’s Sky(Work in progress preview) from NoMansSkyTheGame


tha vanilla game has only 5 shades of day sky colors and 1 shade of sunrise/sunset colors, hence i made this mod to add thousands of new shades of sky colors to the game, to add diversity.

MULTI PLAYER COMPATIBILITY

MULTIPLAYER: This mod is multiplayer safe. if two players dont have the same mod, it wont affect your multiplayer experience. The game will function without any issues for all the players in the multiplayer session.

FILE OPTIONS

There are 5 file options to choose from.

1)PROJECT_ATLAS_SKY_COLORS_ALIEN_SKIES_A.pak – CONTAINS SLIGHTLY WEIRD AND SUBTLE SKY COLOR ADDITIONS
2)PROJECT_ATLAS_SKY_COLORS_ALIEN_SKIES_B.pak – CONTAINS MOST SUBTLE SKY COLOR ADDITIONS
3)PROJECT_ATLAS_SKY_COLORS_ALIEN_SKIES_C.pak – CONTAINS MORE NATURAL SKY COLOR ADDITIONS
4)PROJECT_ATLAS_SKY_COLORS_ALIEN_SKIES_EXTREME.pak – ALLOWS FOR MORE ALIEN SKIES
5)PROJECT_ATLAS_SKY_COLORS_ALIEN_SKIES-ALL_IN_ONE.pak – ALL VERSIONS COMBINED INTO ONE. (this is what i suggest using)

GAME VERSION

NO MANS SKY VISIONS OR 1.75 AND ABOVE

Installation

1) Select any one of the 2 files and download that file.
2) Extract downloaded file using latest version of 7zip or Winrar.
3) Place the mod pak file in the MODS folder of your NMS installation PCBANKS folder. make sure to delete DISABLEMODS.txt before playing game.

Changelog

v1.77- initial release for visions

Credits:

1)MONKEYMAN192 – FOR CONTINUED UPDATES TO MBIN COMPILER.
2)johnathan for helping test the mod and giving valuable feedback
2)a few people who helped with few issues of the mod.

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