Getting started¶

Requirements¶

Physical Celestial Objects is supported by Blender 3.3+.

Installation¶

Download the "physical-celestial-objects[version here].zip" file.
Open Blender.
Go to Edit/Preferences.
Choose "Add-ons" tab and press "Install..." button.
Locate the .zip file and press "Install Add-on".
You will see the newly installed add-on, enable it by checking the checkbox.
Wait till it registers. Voila!

First Run¶

Locate Physical Starlight and Atmosphere panel in Sidebar also called N Panel . Click on the tab PCO to reveal it.
Enable addon by ticking the uppermost checkbox.

Important

To see the sky, you have to be in "Rendered" Viewport Shading mode.

Info

When adding the planet, it will first appear in the scene origin and will seem small. You can add realistic sizes, distances in the transform options eg. moon size/distance.

Presets¶

For now we have 3 available presets.

Earth
Mars
Saturn