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Offline Su-tehp

  • Devil in the Deep Blue
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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
I'm wondering if anyone can do me a favor. I'm looking for background files for Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to use in FRED. The FS2 Sector website has files for this but they are object files that have to go into the ship.tbl file. I'm looking for images that can go into the star.tbl file because I need the space in the ships.tbl file for MODded ships.

(Besides, I dislike the idea of placing gigantic planet-sized objects in a mission.)

Can anyone help me out with this?

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Offline ZylonBane

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
Why can't you just go to the NASA site and grab any of the thousands of planet pics they have there? It's not as if converting a background image takes more than 5 minutes.
 http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/


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Offline an0n

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
You'd think that a government organization would at least be able to make a decent website. I've seen AOL sites better than that.
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Offline vadar_1

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
lol that one button has a blue picture-link border around it

forget those talented AOLers, there are geocities pages better then that!
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Offline Su-tehp

  • Devil in the Deep Blue
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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
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Originally posted by ZylonBane:
Why can't you just go to the NASA site and grab any of the thousands of planet pics they have there? It's not as if converting a background image takes more than 5 minutes.
 http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Zylon, I think you may have misunderstood me. I don't have any conversion tools. Besides, I'm in law school and I don't have the extra time to convert if I did have the tools. (I certainly don't have time to find or buy these tools and figure out how to use them.) That's why I'm asking the HLP community for this favor.

And so, I ask again, can anyone help me out?
REPUBLICANO FACTIO DELENDA EST

Creator of the Devil and the Deep Blue campaign - Current Story Editor of the Exile campaign

"Let my people handle this, we're trained professionals. Well, we're semi-trained, quasi-professionals, at any rate." --Roy Greenhilt,
The Order of the Stick

"Let´s face it, we Freespace players may not be the most sophisticated of gaming freaks, but we do know enough to recognize a heap of steaming crap when it´s right in front of us."
--Su-tehp, while posting on the DatDB internal forum

"The meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed."
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Offline an0n

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
USE PAINTSHOP PRO 7
 http://www.jasc.com

[automatic stupidity editor]Then PAY FOR IT IF YOU WANT TO KEEP USING IT!![/automatic stupidity editor]

if it's a 30 day trial.
Happy?

[This message has been edited by Maeglamor (edited 02-03-2002).]
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Offline Nico

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
what? you just need to have it as a pcx file, and to have the colour around the planet as pure green. you can do that in paint.
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Offline Grey Wolf

I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
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Originally posted by an0n:
USE PAINTSHOP PRO 7
 http://www.jasc.com

Then goto
 *REMOVED*

if it's a 30 day trial.
Happy?
No warez, foo!


[This message has been edited by Maeglamor (edited 02-03-2002).]
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Offline Su-tehp

  • Devil in the Deep Blue
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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
D'OH!

Well, I went to that NASA website and saved some pictures I liked as jpeg files. I guess all I have to do now is convert them to pcx files.

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the help.  
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"Let my people handle this, we're trained professionals. Well, we're semi-trained, quasi-professionals, at any rate." --Roy Greenhilt,
The Order of the Stick

"Let´s face it, we Freespace players may not be the most sophisticated of gaming freaks, but we do know enough to recognize a heap of steaming crap when it´s right in front of us."
--Su-tehp, while posting on the DatDB internal forum

"The meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed."
--The Catch 42 Expression, The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast

 
I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
actualy you want to go here:

 http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/mars.html

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Offline Nico

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
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Originally posted by CptWhite:
actualy you want to go here:

 http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/mars.html


actually, you're right dude, I love you btw, wanna marry me?  

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Offline Stryke 9

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
Nice porn  

I hate warez sites...

[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 02-03-2002).]

 
I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
i'll mark you down as "last resort" venom  

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Offline Su-tehp

  • Devil in the Deep Blue
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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
Quote
Originally posted by CptWhite:
actualy you want to go here:

 http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/mars.html

Now these are some sweet pics! Thanks, Captain!  

Now if I can only get the damn modified stars.tbl file to work...  

What sort of properties do the pcx files have to have for them to work in FRED? I converted the jpegs from the first website into pcx files, but I thought that they would appear too large in FRED, so I shrank the image. I also modified the stars.tbl file with the new image names but they don't work. They don't even appear in the pulldonn menu in the background editor!  
REPUBLICANO FACTIO DELENDA EST

Creator of the Devil and the Deep Blue campaign - Current Story Editor of the Exile campaign

"Let my people handle this, we're trained professionals. Well, we're semi-trained, quasi-professionals, at any rate." --Roy Greenhilt,
The Order of the Stick

"Let´s face it, we Freespace players may not be the most sophisticated of gaming freaks, but we do know enough to recognize a heap of steaming crap when it´s right in front of us."
--Su-tehp, while posting on the DatDB internal forum

"The meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed."
--The Catch 42 Expression, The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast

 

Offline Nico

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
Quote
Originally posted by CptWhite:
i'll mark you down as "last resort" venom  


 !

SCREW CANON!

 

Offline ZylonBane

  • The Infamous
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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
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Originally posted by an0n:
You'd think that a government organization would at least be able to make a decent website. I've seen AOL sites better than that.
For his next trick, Fattony will explain what the quality of the website has to do with the images that you download from it.

Waiting...
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Offline vadar_1

  • Mr. Crispy
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    • http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/hosted/fullcircle/
I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
Quote
Originally posted by CptWhite:
actualy you want to go here:

 http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/mars.html



jeez, those are like, the perfect source for SOL backgrounds
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Offline Martinus

  • Aka Maeglamor
  • 210
    • Hard Light Productions
I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
   
Quote
Originally posted by an0n:
USE PAINTSHOP PRO 7
 http://www.jasc.com

Then goto
 *REMOVED*

if it's a 30 day trial.
Happy?

OKAAAAAAYYYYY...

Methinks you are pressing your luck considering that it's widely known at HLP that NO warez discussions are allowed. You've been banned once for distasteful behaviour and we overlooked the fact that you decided to join again under a different name.

It only takes a few morons to get a site shut down because of warez, I've seen it happen. It isn't going to happen here!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

[This message has been edited by Maeglamor (edited 02-03-2002).]

 

Offline WMCoolmon

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I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
Uh, I suggest removing the link from the quotes...
-C

 

Offline Martinus

  • Aka Maeglamor
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    • Hard Light Productions
I need background files for Earth and other Sol system planets
 
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon:
Uh, I suggest removing the link from the quotes...

Good idea