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Title: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Nyctaeus on November 22, 2015, 04:21:39 pm

This question is related to upcoming annoucement of... Mystery Project of course :P. We debated many times inside our team which style of nebulae is the best, and as we current use modiffied ED package, we'd like to know Your opinion.

Option 1:
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/jj21b9.jpg)
Earth Defence Nebulae - Watsisname's Apophysis nebula pack.
Colorful, in extraordinary shapes and cool. This nebula pack released with ED dump are very detailed, has awesome quality but it's pretty different than backgrounds we know from both Freespace games. You may know it from Earth Defense, Venice Mirror or published screenshots from Mystery Project.

Option 2:
(http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/images/RScreen0023.jpg)
MediaVPs Nebulae - Lightspeed's Nebula
Trusted, well known and used in many community projects including FSPort, FSU, Blue Planet and numerous others.

Option 3:
(http://oi47.tinypic.com/5ygig8.jpg)
Generated Skyboxes
Recently introduced to our modding community, nebula skyboxes are known from Dimensional Eclipse, Shadow Genesis and a few other projects. Result of generators are mostly dark, dull skyboxes similar in apperance to original FS1 backgrounds.

If you have other ideas, please share it. Our team is waiting for your feedback :)

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: General Battuta on November 22, 2015, 04:54:32 pm

ED nebulae are mad pretty

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: deathspeed on November 22, 2015, 05:35:38 pm

I like the detail of the option 1 nebulae

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Axem on November 22, 2015, 05:36:38 pm

All of the above, nothing wrong with variety and different styles. The universe is a pretty kooky place after all.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Lepanto on November 22, 2015, 05:43:01 pm

My vote for option 1. Those have the most pop.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Black Wolf on November 22, 2015, 06:13:35 pm

It took me awhile to come around to it, but I really like the generated skyboxes now. They look so much more subtle and realistic than the bright LS nebulae of the past, and, while the ED nebulae are kind of cool in a stylized sort of way, I still much prefer the skyboxes.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Shivan Hunter on November 22, 2015, 07:58:51 pm

Retail FS1 nebulae are objectively the best.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Goober5000 on November 23, 2015, 11:02:52 am

Quote from: Shivan Hunter on November 22, 2015, 07:58:51 pm

Retail FS1 nebulae are objectively the best.

QFT. :D

Incidentally, that third picture looks a lot like one of the nebulas in FS1.

But really, go with whatever fits the character of your campaign.  The ED nebulas look interesting, and AFAIK they aren't used in any released campaigns yet.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Lorric on November 23, 2015, 11:06:07 am

I always found the ED Nebula screenshots to be really eye catching and beautiful personally. And since ED bit the dust, I guess it would be good to see how they fare in a campaign. Might as well take them and use them. :)

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Nyctaeus on November 23, 2015, 12:23:47 pm

They were. The same version of ED nebulae pack as in Mystery Project is present in TheHound's Venice Mirror. I helped a lot with this project and I shared a lot of never-used and forgotten ED stuff including unreleased nebulae bitmaps. If someone want to take a look closer, download VM :P.

There is still some never released ED stuff in FTP archives, including a lot of cool sounds. I will prepare proper and official assetdumps one day, just... I don't have time for everything right now. It's a lot of packing and checking.

Title: Re: What style of nebulae you'd like to see in upcoming project?
Post by: Droid803 on November 23, 2015, 12:53:43 pm

A mix of all of the above!
Variety is the spice of life!