[spaceman]

Hi all,
I have just started playing FS for first time after a successfull download thru Turey's FSO; so big thanks first to Turey for his awesome installer

and now; I 'em curious to know whether can I control any ship in freespace .. like cargo, capital or mother ships or only fighters ?
and does the planet and nebulae textures remain same or are they interactive .. like can you  fly to a planet or be in the nebulae ?

that would be very amazing if possible but I guess its not.. or is it?

Thanks

[Snail]

and now; I 'em curious to know whether can I control any ship in freespace .. like cargo, capital or mother ships or only fighters ?

In short, no. There have been attempts to modify the game to make this possible, but very few of them have succeeded in being as fun as flying a fighter.

and does the planet and nebulae textures remain same or are they interactive .. like can you  fly to a planet or be in the nebulae ?

They remain the same.

[spaceman]

and now; I 'em curious to know whether can I control any ship in freespace .. like cargo, capital or mother ships or only fighters ?

In short, no. There have been attempts to modify the game to make this possible, but very few of them have succeeded in being as fun as flying a fighter.

and does the planet and nebulae textures remain same or are they interactive .. like can you  fly to a planet or be in the nebulae ?

They remain the same.

Thanks for clearing the doubt; Snail  but thats ..very sad   
but neways that aint mean FS is not fun

[colecampbell666]

Planets/nebulae are backgrounds, and never increase or diminish in size. You can however make a model of a planet, and place it in the mission for story purposes/blowing it up. This was done in Inferno.

[Droid803]

and now; I 'em curious to know whether can I control any ship in freespace .. like cargo, capital or mother ships or only fighters ?

Well, I'd think flying cargo would be fun

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, they'd be good against the NTF.

[Jeff Vader]

Planets/nebulae are backgrounds, and never increase or diminish in size. You can however make a model of a planet, and place it in the mission for story purposes/blowing it up. This was done in Inferno.

There were "actual" planets in Cardinal Spear, too.

[Droid803]

However, "Actual" planets don't look as good due to the lighting...

[spaceman]

and now; I 'em curious to know whether can I control any ship in freespace .. like cargo, capital or mother ships or only fighters ?

In short, no. There have been attempts to modify the game to make this possible, but very few of them have succeeded in being as fun as flying a fighter.

and does the planet and nebulae textures remain same or are they interactive .. like can you  fly to a planet or be in the nebulae ?

They remain the same.

seems not possible but it would be equally fun if mother ships or cargo ships can be controlled where in you can command to send fighters outside as needed 

[Snail]

Yeah, that would be fun, but the attempts which have been made thus far are more or less piloting an extremely unmaneuverable craft with no control of your weaponry, meaning you had no control over any of the game except where you were moving (which was in itself a slow process because capital ships are so much slower than fighters).