User Interface Oh My Stars

[Briar Thrain]

Oh My Stars

Constellations display - and more!

(A fork of StellariumCatalog made with original author permission)
- Download Link - https://spacedock.info/mod/4537/Oh My Stars
- Currently published as version 1.0.3
- License:

- CC BY-SA 4.0 - sourced HYG Star Database & sourced Constellation Boundaries (see NOTICE.txt)​

- GPL-2.0 - all other code and content​

- Source - https://github.com/nanonestor/OhMyStars
- Dependencies - ModMenu - https://spacedock.info/mod/4054/ModMenu
- Mod Loader - StarMap

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Oh My Stars - Tour the constellations of the celestial sphere! The mod adds a window with several options and abilities.

- See the Constellations drawn as lines between their identifying stars - including Constellations of many different cultures!
- An informational window shows various aspects of each star currently part of a constellation

Options exist for using the Stars as your guideposts to navigation!
Crudely navigate your way through the cosmos:

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- Navball marker may be toggled using the window showing the currently selected Star's orientation

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- A button is provided to orient the current vessel towards the star, taking control of the flight computer's orientation target

 

[notthebobo]

Once the devs add the new planets, and presumably new stars, will the mod support defining new constellations? I see lots of yarn ball, mouse, and bird constellations being found in Kitten lore. Maybe even a Milky Bowl instead of Milky Way.

 

[Briar Thrain]

Once the devs add the new planets, and presumably new stars, will the mod support defining new constellations? I see lots of yarn ball, mouse, and bird constellations being found in Kitten lore. Maybe even a Milky Bowl instead of Milky Way.

That can easily be done apart from deciding on the new constellations subjectively.

To myself it would not make tons of sense to use a totally alien star arrangement - but we'll see. In either case the mod can be made to accommodate both using a totally different star map and also go back to the current one as an option. I have another mod made locally to on the fly change the properties of stars that get rendered, but I haven't put it up as a published thing - I might wait until the new solar system comes along, and as I mull over how to make that mod and Oh My Stars work together (or roll it into OMS)

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Ooohhh I've been waiting for this.

 

[Briar Thrain]

Oh My Stars 1.3.0 added a second window (accessible through the ModMenu entry at the game top bar) - for editing and changing the stars background. Also saving those changes as presets. For example - If you would like a more realistic stars background as even bright stars being small points simply change the settings and save them as a preset.

Note that the current game stars file IS ALREADY a real stars catalog derived set in locations, colors, and magnitudes - but the field can be tweaked with this. Also the original game binaries file can be toggled back on either independently or together with the current stars bin file for atmospheric effect. (Or any bin file formatted for stars!)

TBD features to add:
- A performant minded option of nearby stars moving when your camera location moves (interstellar trips)
- In-game star binaries file generating from catalog sources
- Making and saving your own stars individually and likewise with constellation lines.

 

[Briar Thrain]

Oh My Stars 1.4.0 added a setting dubbed 'experimental' but is also enabled by default.

Background stars are now mapped to their spatial locations according to the AT-HYG catalog information, as well as their displayed magnitude based off of absolute magnitude and distance to the camera!

Constellation lines and pointer lines from the mod also do map to their correct orientations accounting for the new star locations. Effectively this makes the stars background appear 3D and move with your camera! Perhaps some bugs and refinements needed but it's well off.

(Below) Casseopiea constellation viewed from Barnard's Star


(Below) Zooming the camera waaaaay out. In reality stars in the galaxy keep going as they do, but this represents the stars the catalog stars which the game uses - limiting to approximately 100k stars to limit performance impacts. Individual star names toggled on for display