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Title: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 19, 2008, 02:59:37 am
of yellow nebulae?  :wtf: yellow is a far cry from the bright red orange and pale biege. I have no problem with  making them myself, but I just find it odd, especially since (IIRC, it's been 7 years) FS I had some.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Vasudan Admiral on July 19, 2008, 09:56:46 am
....huh?

Why would we be afraid of yellow nebulae? And why is this question posed as a kind of accusation rather than a suggestion or regular question?
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Black Wolf on July 19, 2008, 10:43:47 am
Why are you so afraid...of yellow nebulae? 

I was an altar boy...

He was a yellow nebula.

I don't like to talk about it.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Droid803 on July 19, 2008, 11:50:45 am
Well, I would use yellow nebulae...if there was any. Not bright yellow, more of a darker one so its not so blinding.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Nemesis6 on July 19, 2008, 02:39:39 pm
Why are you so afraid...of yellow nebulae? 

I was an altar boy...

He was a yellow nebula.

I don't like to talk about it.

Being a catholic boy is hard, isn't it?  :sigh:
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 19, 2008, 04:05:53 pm
*facepalm* i'll make some then
Title: Durandals yellow nebulae
Post by: Hellstryker on July 20, 2008, 04:21:08 pm
As promised: http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.303
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: CP5670 on July 20, 2008, 10:30:38 pm
There is already a thread on this. I merged them together.

I made some yellow nebulas for my campaign many years ago, back in the retail days when they had to be 256x256 images, but most people didn't like the color in the screenshots I posted so I got rid of them. I remember someone calling it "ugly mustard yellow." :D
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 20, 2008, 11:28:27 pm
These are more or less that warm race car orange-yellow, not mustardy.
Edit: I just realized I posted the .TGA ones... *facepalm*. Anyone know of a program that can batch convert to .DDS?
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Excalibur on July 20, 2008, 11:39:26 pm
Really orange nebulae are just as bad sometimes, especially when there's a Typhon involved, because it it brown and blue.

btw, has anyone ever made a pitch black nebula?
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: blowfish on July 20, 2008, 11:43:20 pm
btw, has anyone ever made a pitch black nebula?

:wtf:

Err ... black nebulae wouldn't show up against the black of space.  There are some silhouetted black cloud nebulae in LS's nebula pack, but that's the closest you're going to get.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: CP5670 on July 21, 2008, 12:00:08 am
These are more or less that warm race car orange-yellow, not mustardy.
Edit: I just realized I posted the .TGA ones... *facepalm*. Anyone know of a program that can batch convert to .DDS?

The ones I had made were pretty much that same shade of yellow. I thought they looked nice (for their time, anyway) but the color was not popular, at least back then.

You can use nvDXT to convert them.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 21, 2008, 01:58:32 am
Meh, in any case I think they look alot nicer than those ultra saturated orange nebulae... now let me get this straight, nvDXT can do batch conversion
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: CP5670 on July 21, 2008, 03:24:07 am
I used it to convert all the PI nebula files at some point, although I don't remember now exactly what I did. You can probably pass in a .* filename into it to do batches.
Title: Re: Durandals yellow nebulae
Post by: Gregster2k on July 21, 2008, 09:38:04 am
As promised: http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.303
Looks really, really pretty. My FreeSpace wouldn't be complete without the ability to gaze at golden stellar debris. Well done. :)
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Herra Tohtori on July 22, 2008, 02:41:24 am
btw, has anyone ever made a pitch black nebula?

:wtf:

Err ... black nebulae wouldn't show up against the black of space.  There are some silhouetted black cloud nebulae in LS's nebula pack, but that's the closest you're going to get.

I think that's exactly what was meant, kinda like the Coalsack Nebula...
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: redsniper on July 22, 2008, 03:22:29 pm
We ought to bring back those crazy FS1-style nebulae while we're at it. :p
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 22, 2008, 09:45:00 pm
I totally forget what they were like, to be honest. where can you find em (if at all)
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: SypheDMar on July 23, 2008, 07:35:53 pm
If I download the yellow nebula, does it replace any of the nebulæ I have or does it add an extra one?
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 23, 2008, 07:53:02 pm
Really orange nebulae are just as bad sometimes, especially when there's a Typhon involved, because it it brown and blue.

btw, has anyone ever made a pitch black nebula?

[interior designer voice] Dont'cha jus' hate it when the space clashes with yer ship... *snaps fingers*[/interior designer voice]
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: nubbles526 on July 23, 2008, 08:58:42 pm
The Yellow Nebs in the download link are pretty awesome. But it doesn't freak me out.

I hate purple Nebulaes such as the ones seen in Transcend and Sync.
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 23, 2008, 10:28:23 pm
Sync was red wasn't it? and these arn't nebula poofs, these are backgrounds
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: nubbles526 on July 23, 2008, 10:44:33 pm
Sync was red wasn't it? and these arn't nebula poofs, these are backgrounds

Omg.....I hate the Red ones too....so eeeeeeeeeeerrrriiiieeee....
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Droid803 on July 23, 2008, 11:21:04 pm
Well, at least it was EMP storming like in As Lightning Fall. (or was it?)
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on July 24, 2008, 12:07:15 am
It was, actually.
Edit: I'll make sure to have plenty of red and purple nebulae in TotT for you then ^_^
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: Hellstryker on February 26, 2009, 05:35:02 pm
 :bump:
Finally got around to updating these. Now in DDS, with an updated stars .tbl
http://freespacemods.net/download.php?view.500
Title: Re: Why are you so afraid...
Post by: blowfish on February 26, 2009, 05:52:16 pm
What happened to TBMs? :(