[1.7.10][1.8.9][1.9][1.9.4] Stellar Sky, Realistic Customizable Sky

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Stellar Sky is a mod which changes the Minecraft sky to be much more realistic.
It adds fancy real stars and planets, and so on.
You can even find constellations with this mod!

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Features

  • Real colored stars rise at night; They even twinkle.
  • The Sun and Moon is much fancier, smaller than default, and they move diagonally like real world.
  • Milky way can be seen on the night sky.
  • Length of a day and a year can be changed by config.
  • Can view the additional displays such as horizontal, equatorial, ecliptic grid. Also landscape is added on the recent version(v0.1.4.8) (Disabled by default, see Per Dimension settings)
  • Current time is shown on the HUD. (For more information, see Stellar API)
  • Client Settings is configurable via HUD. Press 'U' to open the configuration.
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* Currently this mod does not affect performance much!
* On latest version of 1.7.10, this mod runs on 40FPS when vanilla runs on 45FPS
with default settings(mag limit 6.0) on default world.


------------------------------- Features for versions after v0.1.5.0 ---------------------------------------
* Configurable Atmosphere with Shaders! (It's in Per-Dimension Config)
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* Currently not fully optimized(v0.1.5.0), so It runs at rate of 30~40FPS when vanilla is 50FPS.
* End sky is not yet implemented.

Screenshots
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With v0.1.5.0+
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Curseforge Link

http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/stellar-sky
Recent Versions of Stellar Sky needs Stellar API:
http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/stellar-api

License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
You should give appropriate credit, by supplying the Author and this curseforge link.

Planned Features
  • Rendering planet when viewed with telescopes.
  • Deep sky objects, such as nebulae and clusters.

Configuation:
See this link!
+ You can find additional configurations on Gui Config, and HUD Configurations.

List of configuration properties which might need additional information.
- Mag_Limit : reducing Limit Magnitude can improve FPS exponentially
- Brightness_Contrast : Brighten fainter stars. Does not affect FPS.
- Twinkling(Turbulance) : Degree of the twinkling effect of star. Not related with FPS.
- Server_Enabled : Enables Server-Side Sky change, like Day/Year length and Sky.
- Offsets(Start time), Start time will be YearOffset / DayOffset / TickOffset.
* Tick_Offset: Start tick.
* Day_Offset: Start day.
* Year_Offset: Start year.
+ There are Per-Dimension Sky Configurations.

* Configuration Lock:
You can lock sky configuration via Lock button or /locksky.
After that, you cannot change common config settings(e.g. length of day, year) forever, so BE CAREFUL!
(Actually you can unlock it by pressing it again)
On the latest version, it is migrated into the Client Settings Overlay. (See features above)
 

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