A planet that's naturally green!

[codefantastic]

 I don't own this!! I found it on the Steam Forums! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=518452796

I don't know how he did it, but I hope someone does!

[Cryo]

uh that's the sea floor all those darker areas are where once water occupied look a the earth deprived of water and you'll see something very similar

[codefantastic]

uh that's the sea floor all those darker areas are where once water occupied look a the earth deprived of water and you'll see something very similar

Doesn't look like a sea floor

[The Ventifact]

uh that's the sea floor all those darker areas are where once water occupied look a the earth deprived of water and you'll see something very similar

It looks like a green texture to me, like land, not the ocean floor. I could be wrong though. Perhaps a dev would know what happened.

[Arian]

I may be wrong, but I think you can get that by playing around with the background settings. Ambient light can do (visual) wonders.

[The Ventifact]

I may be wrong, but I think you can get that by playing around with the background settings. Ambient light can do (visual) wonders.

I guess it could be. Although, looking at the image closer, there doesn't appear to be an ambient light change. Usually, the stars in the background change in color too, at least when altering the ambient background.

Hmm... 

[Gordon Freeman]

It could be a photoshop

[Arian]

or it could just be real 

[codefantastic]

or it could just be real 

'cuse me... WHAT?

[codefantastic]

or it could just be real 

Did you do that or did you fin this image?

[Darvince]

It's not inconceivable to think that he could've modded it and added a gaia-type color palette for rocky worlds.

[Arian]

or it could just be real 

Did you do that or did you fin this image?

I did that very quickly, just to show how ambient light could affect the apparent color of a planet. I included the UI showing the advanced background settings I used.
That was supposed to prove my claim that ambient light could make a planet look green, not to prove that the OP pic is a fake.

[crashman1390]

Guys, it seems to be a glitch with the blueyellow background, it makes some random texture map super visible:

[Arian]

 

Guys, it seems to be a glitch with the blueyellow background, it makes some random texture map super visible:

http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,15536.0.html

[Physics_Hacker]

Uh, no background, no ambient light.

[codefantastic]

Uh, no background, no ambient light.

That looks more bluish though

[Physics_Hacker]

Uh, no background, no ambient light.

That looks more bluish though

But it's still green.

[DiamondMiner10]

Strange. Maybe the composition?

I had a cobalt blue planet with a bright blue atmosphere a few times