[Selectah]

It's not. It's FS1 P3 OEM.

Where, oh God where can I find this most enigmatic FS1 version?!

Are the FS1 planet backgrounds real, or merely manifestations of PaintShop skillz? If they are, how can they be used in retail FS1? Any idea? Am I wasting my time?

[Selectah]

Hmm...,

I haven't found any other reference to the P3 OEM version, other than the posted screenshot. Does it really exist? And if so, where can I get my greedy hands on it? I guess the only difference is the EXE, so that's really all that's needed.

[Ace]

Actually the OEM version, Darkness Rising, did not have planet backgrounds.

Those were in an earlier build, shortly after the idea of fully 3d planets with gravity effects was dropped. (to be used as "space terrain" that blocked sensors, etc.)

[Goober5000]

There must have been more than one OEM version then.  Because I have the FS1 Pentium III OEM version that came on DVD, which has both planet backgrounds and afterburner trails.

[Selectah]

And that's w/ a new EXE, innit? Alternatively, very weird looking FSM missions, wotsit? Just outta curio, if you have that ver, could u p'raps post the #Background part of, for instance, the EOD mission. For a comparison, y'kno.

[bfobar]

I just like to say that I think another screenie or teaser pic of some sort is needed. 

[BlackDove]

In two weeks. I'll make a bundle.

[Genoism]

dont u mean to say in two weeks your releasing BWO .....that'll be the day...

[BlackDove]

God I hope so.

[NGTM-1R]

God I hope so.

Feature creep will not help you.

[Ace]

Feature creep hasn't helped us either

[NGTM-1R]

That's exactly what I meant. Though, I suspect, in a different sense from how it was interpreted.

[Taristin]

There must have been more than one OEM version then.  Because I have the FS1 Pentium III OEM version that came on DVD, which has both planet backgrounds and afterburner trails.

I know this post is from October, but this is the first I'm reading of it.  Apparently, Goober, you and I have the same FS1 DVD.

[Night Hammer]

question, why does the jumpgate lead right into a planet?

[FireCrack]

I never got the impression that planets existed in subspace.

[Mental Menace]

Because they don't ?

[aldo_14]

question, why does the jumpgate lead right into a planet?

Because it looks pretty?

[Nuclear1]

Ah, must be the GTVA's recent invention, the Galactic Terran Suicide Booth.

[IceFire]

question, why does the jumpgate lead right into a planet?

Mmmm it doesn't.  What do you mean?

Subspace has no correlation with real space so where the subspace node exists has little to do with where a planet does.  I bet that a subspace node can pass right through a planet with no ill effects.  Its barely present in normal space...its a slight tear. If its stable enough than a GTVA ship with suitably equipped inter-system subspace drive technology can make the subspace jump, travel the corridor, and arrive at the other side.

Planets matter not.  However, in terms of the BWO campaign, we use of planets (now completely high res and drop dead gorgeous) to show the player that they are in a particular location.  We're very consistent where planets appear and what is nearby.  Its part of the "space terrain" sort of feeling we initially set out to create when dealing with the MOD work on BWO.

[FireCrack]

I thaught subspace was connected to gravity, if that's the case a subspace node may not even be able to come near a planet...