This is my planet viewer mod. It has an emphasis on art / flavour and storytelling. I haven't been satisfied with the planet viewer since the removal of tiles, where considerable flavour was traded off for a rather charmless approach. So I made this!

• A lot of great artwork made by Paradox gets shrunk in the Vanilla UI (like those tiny buildings!)
  
• In this mod that has been undone and you'll see everything at their full size, such as tiles, leaders, district art and more.
  

• A new area to the left that displays an animated view of the surface of your planets.
  
• Leveraged significantly in my "New Worlds" planet variety mod.
  

• Construct buildings on the actual planet once more, instead of floating in empty UI.
  
• Cleaned up some buildings and removed the resource icons baked into them.
  

• 80 New animated designation emblems to show off your colony types.
  
• One for every type supported by Vanilla (unique on ring-worlds, habitats, primitives, etc.)
  

• I love armies and this screen was a real pet project for me.
  
• Bigger, clearer army icons at the same resolution as those seen in the console edition.
  

• See the local star (including binary and trinary) in the sky above your cities.
  
• Planets are now bathed in a light that matches the local star.
  
• For eg. the big scary class-M systems will cast worlds in red light.
  
• Some stars cast white light, some blue, some purple, you get the picture.
  
• Affects ALL planets, not just colonies (for example molten worlds have different colours based on the system they're in.)
  

• Planet class text now changes if your colony is a moon or not, as well as the weather.
  
• For e.g you can find a "Jungle Moon" or an "Arid Moon" or an "Ocean Moon".
  

• There are several weather effects: Rainy, Stormy, Snowy, Blizzard, Dusty, Foggy, Soot.
  
• Once you have researched the vanilla "Weather Control Systems" technology you can customise the weather of your worlds.
  
• Affecting the weather of the world will update it's name (Tundra Fog World, Ocean Storm World, etc)
  
• This is purely cosmetic, has no affect or interaction with game-play/habitability rules (yes, even if you make it rain on a desert. It's just cool!)
  

• Planets now have a wilderness view - showing dominant ecological activity happening on the surface.
  
• Examples include "Titanic Life", "Migrating Forests", the existence of pre-sapient life, as well as high devastation or terra-forming habitat loss.
  
• Includes support for my other mod Dangerous Wildlife Expanded (For example "Raptor Worlds" or "Mammoth Worlds"). Alien Pets Expanded will have more (when it releases).
  

• Planets now gain titles based on how long people have been living there, from "Young Worlds" to "Ancient" and something special for Fallen Empires.
  
• Advanced Empires gain potentially hundreds of years of a head start on you. Get the sense of being a newcomer in an already developed galaxy!
  

• New Worlds, an expansion to this mod made by me! The two projects were built at the same time as each-other, for each-other. Check it out.
  
• UI Overhaul Dynamic for an excellent UI clean up. It's fully compatible, just load my mod below (after) it.
  
• Sartek Economy Master an expansion to this mod (and Sartek Tradition) that gives you more zone specialisations and building slots all in one!
  
• For more recommendations and compatibility advice check my collection at the top of this page.
  

• Thank you to Orrie who play-tested the mod a little and gave me compatibility advice on the original version.
  
• Thank you to Joker who provided a bunch of really awesome art for this project in 4.x!