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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Riven on July 23, 2002, 06:00:03 am

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Riven on July 23, 2002, 06:00:03 am

Here's the results of my new nebular patch so far. There are only 6 so far but this will increase. Tell me what you think.
BTW this patch will not be release seperatly for a while, it is in development primaraly for Rise of GCA (http://digilander.libero.it/ichnosoft/riseofgca/index.htm) campaign. Check it out (i made the site too)

PS. IF YOU ARE COLBALT STAR THEN PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ZARAX ABOUT HOSTING!!:nod:

(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/snap01.jpg)

(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/snap02.jpg)

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 23, 2002, 06:03:51 am

The 2nd one is cool... But the first one looks like 3 nebular puzzle pieces are linked together... Its strange...

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Riven on July 23, 2002, 06:14:50 am

thats because the 1st one IS 3 different nebs!

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 23, 2002, 06:39:57 am

Mmm.... Don't stick 'm together like that. Its not good. Either make 'm really overlap eachother or use the pan/bank etc. options a bit more.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Mad Bomber on July 23, 2002, 08:31:14 am

Oh no! The PFC is coming! Run from the Pegasi Federated Commonwealth! :D

hehehe

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Zarax on July 23, 2002, 09:02:23 am

No, it's the Galactic Corporation Alliance first enemy...
The Pirate Fleet!

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Black Wolf on July 24, 2002, 11:27:03 am

They look - interesting...not bad at all.

How and in what did you make these?

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Zarax on July 24, 2002, 11:28:32 am

Rise of GCA, the newest FS2 MOD campaign...
www.galacticcorporationalliance.cjb.net

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Riven on July 24, 2002, 12:39:01 pm

ok, the patch is finished with some interesting results. I overrode all the previous nebs with the new ones so that any mission would use the new ones. Here's the first real mission in the FS2 campaign: wot do you think? Do i need to make them closer to the original nebs?

(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/Freespace/snap01.jpg)
(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/Freespace/snap02.jpg)
(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/Freespace/snap03.jpg)
(http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/Freespace/snap04.jpg)

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 24, 2002, 03:05:24 pm

Quote

http://freespace.virgin.net/ididntdoit.canttouchme/Freespace/snap03.jpg

That looks...very interesting. I would say they need to be toned down some, or it could be pretty distracting.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: IceFire on July 24, 2002, 04:48:47 pm

Colorful :)

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Zarax on July 24, 2002, 04:51:16 pm

Just wait the rest...
Prepare yourself to change your way of playing FS2...:mad2:

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: TheCelestialOne on July 25, 2002, 05:02:28 am

*in a geat battle against a sath*

"Pilot... Aren't these colors nice?"

"Yes, they..."

BOOM!

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Stunaep on July 25, 2002, 07:47:42 am

the red nebulae is  a bit too bright. It looks like an expülosion rather than a nebulea. Make it less bright.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Alikchi on July 25, 2002, 09:15:07 am

Nebulae are explosions

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 02:08:03 pm

Holy crap thats colourful.
Is this done through a code change or script change or what?

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Riven on July 25, 2002, 02:32:18 pm

i just used Photoshop 6 and a flaming pear plugin, they replace the original nebs in the effects folder.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: CP5670 on July 25, 2002, 07:46:04 pm

Looks pretty good. I would recommend sticking to one or two colors only within a mission though, since that allows them to blend in better with each other.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Knight Templar on July 25, 2002, 07:52:28 pm

ya, colorfull as hell. looks good though, just not for missions. Maybe not as many diff. colors in the same mission.

What i would be inpressed by is if somebody made some existing nebulaes, i know they would loook different from where FS is, but it would be siick if someone did that.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: RandomTiger on July 25, 2002, 09:47:13 pm

I like that idea. Give reality a shot. Might look a bit boring after that though.

Also could the nebulas be replaced by other things?
Like far away asteriod or debris fields.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Sesquipedalian on July 25, 2002, 10:29:14 pm

Real images look better than the fake FS2 ones if done properly.

A proto-system (stellar dust and asteroids and such circling a sun) as a background:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/screen01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/screen02.jpg

Real planetary nebula background images:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula00.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula02.jpg

Edit: It's Angelfire, so copy and paste the links to your address bar.  And no, I won't release these files, sorry. ;)

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: Vasudan Admiral on July 26, 2002, 03:35:44 am

i like the first one best.
where did you get them then?
another job for the scp-animated backgrounds (has someone said that already?)
then there could be far more realistic supernovas. instead of enlarging pcx's.

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: RandomTiger on July 26, 2002, 07:02:54 am

Dont like to share hu?

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: vyper on July 26, 2002, 07:11:06 am

Quote

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Real images look better than the fake FS2 ones if done properly.

A proto-system (stellar dust and asteroids and such circling a sun) as a background:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/screen01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/screen02.jpg

Real planetary nebula background images:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula00.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula01.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/images/planetarynebula02.jpg

Edit: It's Angelfire, so copy and paste the links to your address bar.  And no, I won't release these files, sorry. ;)

Very nice! :nod:

Title: New nebular patch
Post by: CP5670 on July 26, 2002, 11:32:43 am

I have noticed that combining the usual nebula graphics with some photographs makes for a good background. The photos look great but cannot be duplicated (and still look right) and thus only cover up a part of the background, while the FS2-style nebula don't look as good but are able to cover up the entire sphere, so they work nicely together.

On a side note, these are a bit old and I have changed them around since I posted the thread, but check this out: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,8115.0.html