Atmosphere

The Atmosphere { } subnode of the Body { } node describes the body's atmospheric attributes, such as oxygen, pressure, and temperature. It also contains the AtmosphereFromGround { } subnode (AFG), which details the atmosphere's colors.

Subnodes #

• AtmosphereFromGround

Example #

Body
{
	...
	Atmosphere
	{
		enabled = true
		oxygen = false
		ambientColor = 0.2,0.3,0.8,1
		altitude = 35000
		staticPressureASL = 73.3086375

		AtmosphereFromGround
		{
			...
		}

		pressureCurve
		{
			key =	0	73.3086375	-9.40053885714286E-03	-9.40053885714286E-03
			key =	1750	56.8576945	-9.06132071428572E-03	-9.06132071428572E-03
			key =	3500	41.594015	-7.66193321571429E-03	-7.66193321571429E-03
			key =	5250	30.04092583	-5.75651121285714E-03	-5.75651121285714E-03
			key =	7000	21.44622817	-4.16994392857143E-03	-4.16994392857143E-03
			key =	8750	15.44612208	-2.90616120814286E-03	-2.90616100142857E-03
			key =	10500	11.27466225	-2.14383385714286E-03	-2.14383385714286E-03
			key =	12250	7.942703583	-1.57375037842857E-03	-1.57375037842857E-03
			key =	14000	5.766536167	-1.03374362157143E-03	-1.03374362157143E-03
			key =	15750	4.324600667	-7.27255171714286E-04	-7.27255171714286E-04
			key =	17500	3.221142583	-5.39731E-04	-5.39731E-04
			key =	19250	2.435542167	-4.01197907285714E-04	-4.01197907285714E-04
			key =	21000	1.816949667	-3.32120814571429E-04	-3.32120814571429E-04
			key =	22750	1.273118833	-2.57703878428571E-04	-2.57703878428571E-04
			key =	24500	0.9149863333	-1.74466857142857E-04	-1.74466857142857E-04
			key =	26250	0.6624848333	-1.36190255014286E-04	-1.36190255014286E-04
			key =	28000	0.4383204167	-1.16655755014286E-04	-1.16655755014286E-04
			key =	29750	0.2541896667	-9.19878571428571E-05	-9.19878571428571E-05
			key =	31500	0.1163629167	-6.40814285714286E-05	-6.40814285714286E-05
			key =	33250	0.02990466667	-3.32465407285714E-05	-3.32465407285714E-05
			key =	35000	0	-1.70883816414286E-05	-1.70883816414286E-05
		}
		pressureCurveIsNormalized = false
		temperatureSeaLevel = 266.33
		temperatureCurve
		{
			key =	0	266.33	-0.01833333429	-0.01833333429
			key =	4200	196.3746529	-0.002596739429	-0.002588734857
			key =	7350	196.3746529	0.002588734857	0.002588734857
			key =	10850	246.342758	0.001414898286	0.001414898286
			key =	19600	246.342758	-0.001951223714	-0.001951223714
			key =	28000	170.0278339	-0.002596739429	-0.002596739429
			key =	31500	170.0278339	0.001353641429	0.001353641429
			key =	35000	209.0938069	0.001984583143	0.001984583143
			key =	52500	0	-0.001284597429	-0.001284597429
		}
		temperatureSunMultCurve
		{
			key =	0	1	0	0
			key =	2692.307692	0.5	-0.0001714285714	-0.0002932711429
			key =	2966.661923	0	0	0
			key =	5401.571537	0	0	0
			key =	12747.88846	0.2	0	0
			key =	19330.81231	0.2	0	0
			key =	24577.96922	0	0	0
			key =	35000	0.4	0	0
		}
	}
}

Property	Format	Description
enabled	Boolean	Whether the body has an atmosphere.
oxygen	Boolean	Whether the atmosphere contains oxygen. Used for whether jet engines should work in the atmosphere.
ambientColor	Color	All objects inside of the atmosphere will slightly shine in this color.
lightColor	Color	(Deprecated) Sets the AFG waveLength to this value. If AFG is not included, it automatically creates a new AFG.
staticDensityASL	Decimal	Atmospheric density at sea level. Used to calculate the parameters of the atmosphere if no curves are used.
staticPressureASL	Decimal	The static pressure at sea level in kPa. Used to calculate the parameters of the atmosphere if no curves are used. It is displayed in KSP under the body information.
temperatureSeaLevel	Decimal	The static temperature in Kelvin at sea level. Used to calculate the parameters of the atmosphere if no curves are used.
adiabaticIndex	Decimal	The ratio of the heat capacity of a gas at constant pressure to its heat capacity at constant volume. Used to determine the speed of sound.
atmosphereDepth	Decimal	(Also altitude,maxAltitude) The atmosphere cutoff altitude/height of the atmosphere.
gasMassLapseRate	Decimal	?
atmosphereMolarMass	Decimal	The average molar mass of all the gases in the atmosphere in kg/mol. Used to determine density (which is then also a factor in the speed of sound.)
temperatureLapseRate	Decimal	?
pressureCurveIsNormalized	Boolean	Whether the pressure curve height values should use absolute (0 - atmosphereDepth) or relative (0 - 1) values.
pressureCurve	FloatCurve	Assigns a pressure value (in kPa) to a height value inside of the atmosphere.
temperatureCurveIsNormalized	Boolean	Whether the temperature curve should use absolute (0 - atmosphereDepth) or relative (0 - 1) values.
temperatureCurve	FloatCurve	Assigns a temperature value (in Kelvin) to a height value inside of the atmosphere.
temperatureSunMultCurve	FloatCurve	This curve takes altitude (meters) and returns a multiplier. Its value defines how temperatureSeaLevel varies with altitude.
temperatureLatitudeBiasCurve	FloatCurve	This curve takes latitude (degrees) and returns temperature (K). Its value defines the latitudinal temperature variation.
temperatureLatitudeSunMultCurve	FloatCurve	This curve takes latitude (degrees) and returns temperature (K). Its value defines the diurnal temperature variation.
temperatureAxialSunBiasCurve	FloatCurve	This curve takes true anomaly (degrees) and returns temperature (K). Its value defines the seasonal temperature variation.
temperatureEccentricityBiasCurve	FloatCurve	This curve takes a value between 0 (periapsis) and 1 (apoapsis) and returns temperature (K). Its value defines the temperature variation due to orbital eccentricity.