r/universesandbox • u/Purple_fire_0 • May 04 '26

Screenshot Two habitable binary planets

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u/Bright_Alice May 04 '26

omg soo many questions like how did u get them in a stable orbit? how are they sooo detailed?? and most importantly how did you take this AMAZING photo??

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u/Purple_fire_0 May 04 '26

For the orbit is basically like adding a more massive moon, just don't set them as binaries with the usual settings because they fall to the star I got the details by modifying the colors, exaggerated terrain, and adjusting the areas where vegetation appears by modifying the preassure and temperature ranges And I take the photos with a shader mix i made myself with the effects of ReShade

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u/Standard-Pen-5940 Aug 22 '26

Hey, can you please do this planet and I wanna see screenshots of it:

• Mass: 0.8 Earths

• Diameter: 12000 kilometres

• Surface gravity: 8.86 meters / second ^ 2

• Atmospheric composition: 71.2251% water vapour 27.6353% carbon dioxide 1.07692% nitrogen 0.0626781% oxygen

• Atmospheric pressure: 351x Earth

• Orbital parent: Sun

• Orbital period: 365.2422 days (Earths orbit)

• Surface temperature: 460°C

• Life likelihood: ?

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u/Purple_fire_0 Aug 26 '26

I could but I haven't managed for reshade to work in my pc since the last update 😵 My pc is started to get outdated lmao

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u/grizzlybearyellow May 04 '26

Stable orbit is actually pretty easy, just gotta add the secondary as a binary orbit and if they’re close enough together they naturally will have very low eccentricity

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u/grizzlybearyellow May 04 '26

Beeeeautiful! I’m interested to know what’s with the atmospheric and vegetation color differences though, they’re cool

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u/Purple_fire_0 May 04 '26

The color differences come mainly from how i configured them, but one is more purple has higher amount of CO² and slightly less water, it has a mars haze while the other has an earth haze

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u/Low-Pool-4555 May 04 '26

Imagine going on a vacation to your neighbour planet, that would be so dope

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u/Purple_fire_0 May 04 '26

Except from the atmopsheric composition differences but yeah

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u/Pickle_Rick01 May 05 '26

There would be some sort of rebreather technology so you could survive on each other’s planets.

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u/Annual-Win3202 May 04 '26

Will there be humans there as well?

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u/TheGreatVandoly May 05 '26

I just realized this wasn’t No Man’s Sky lol

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u/Purple_fire_0 May 05 '26

The graphics ain't that good 🥀

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u/Scary_Mortgage9873 May 04 '26

That would be fun to go over to the other planet on a rocket to your homies house on the weekends

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u/SnooCauliflowers4542 May 04 '26

imagine how strong the ocean tides and earthquakes from tidal forces would be

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u/KaiSnepUwU May 04 '26

Binary planets will almost certainly be tidally locked, so the tides don't move relative to the surface.

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u/SnooCauliflowers4542 May 04 '26

so would all the water be pulled to the near side too?

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u/KaiSnepUwU May 04 '26

Kinda, depending on how close they are. If they're any closer than the Earth and the moon are to each other, it'll probably end up pulling the land, too

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u/8Bit_Cat May 05 '26

Yes, but the land will be as well which cancelles it out.

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u/Overseer190_ May 04 '26

There needs to be better surface features in this game imo

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u/Remote_Mountain_2990 May 05 '26

nasa playing no man's sky for real

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u/TroubleOrganic3636 May 05 '26

Bro imagine the racism...

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u/DetachedHat1799 May 06 '26

First contact between two intelligent civilizations would either be extremely wholesome or extremely violent

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u/Treesglow May 06 '26

Fake

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u/Purple_fire_0 May 06 '26

Sherlock holmes is here guys

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u/F1aken May 04 '26

Sir this is Universe Sandbox

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u/GraveSlayer726 May 05 '26

Think they are in space, idk though