[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.

[Vasudan Admiral]

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.

[RandomTiger]

Dont like to share hu?

[vyper]

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!

[CP5670]

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