[karajorma]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
by editing stars.tbl. Don't wanna do that, though. I will FRED through the main campaign with jdjt, once this is done, though.

Or, put it this way, we'll make templates for each system, and then assign them to the missions. That's what I was/ I am collectiong your background compositions for

Can you release the templates as a pack too once you're ready? I have a few missions set in systems which appear in FS2 and I'm a stickler for staying close to canon if I can

[Singh]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
by editing stars.tbl. Don't wanna do that, though. I will FRED through the main campaign with jdjt, once this is done, though.

Or, put it this way, we'll make templates for each system, and then assign them to the missions. That's what I was/ I am collectiong your background compositions for

You guys need any help? I do have a copy of the mission I redid (the one with the Colossus going down) here somewhere...but it got corrupted I think.
either way, i think I could help - sometimes combining the new and old nebulas do make nice results

[Kazan]

can you add in bitamps with various sized stars

[jdjtcagle]

Originally posted by Singh


You guys need any help? I do have a copy of the mission I redid (the one with the Colossus going down) here somewhere...but it got corrupted I think.
either way, i think I could help - sometimes combining the new and old nebulas do make nice results

Yeah, if anybody has in-game fixes I think it would be better if we added those

I think we are going to do one with stars that appear in the real world and just the Freespace 2 canon stars in the other...

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Kazan
can you add in bitamps with various sized stars

That was ruled out because the background stars streak when you move, but bitmap ones don't. It'd look funny.

[jdjtcagle]

Can we changed the way lights are rendered to get the same effect?

[Kazan]

i still want them -- we can implement motion-blur for all background objects (obviously activated per-bitmap by-flag)

[jdjtcagle]

*eye's widen*  

[CP5670]

Lightspeed, any idea on when you will release the final version? I am holding off putting these in my missions only because you are still releasing major updates to them.

There are one or two nebula graphics in each set that seem to be almost completely black though and can probably be removed, although I haven't seen how they look ingame.

[übermetroid]

I'll download this when it gets put in the .VP files...  

[Lightspeed]

Well, I have two more sets planned - unless someone has a very specific wish i'll be finished after that.

Kazan: Motion blur for all background images? When/If that gets implemented, I could probably do some - Although I'll first wait for the new star background system, that someone *cough RT(?) cough* wanted to code.

[Singh]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle


Yeah, if anybody has in-game fixes I think it would be better if we added those

I think we are going to do one with stars that appear in the real world and just the Freespace 2 canon stars in the other...

I'll PM any templates I can finish up using whatever nebs LS has released till now.
*goes off to look for the Sandwich's mission background pack

[Lightspeed]

Great, just copy n' paste the spew from the mission file and PM me. It'll be added to TehBackgroundLibrary(TM).

[kasperl]

Lightspeed: When/if I do release the random mission builder, could you lend me that pack?

[Lightspeed]

Of course. I will release the complete system table when i'm through with jdjtcagle

Important Note: Nebula Release 6 zipfile has been updated. There was a minor cosmetic flaw with nebulF1-main which has been fixed. If you have downloaded the release already, you'll have to download again to have the updated file.

[Fafner]

those nebulas look great

some soild work there mate

[KARMA]

Originally posted by Kazan
i still want them -- we can implement motion-blur for all background objects (obviously activated per-bitmap by-flag)

actually that's something I'd like to see.
Or at least make it so the game doesn't generate it's own stars at all.
My dream is to have something like a glowmap for the stars in the background, I mean a black/white image that will tell the game where to draw the stars, of which size, and maybe of which colour and intensity too.

BTW I'm using nonetheless bitmap stars, it doesn't look weird IMHO (actually it seem that those who tested my backgrounds didn't even realized that there were bitmap stars all over the sky) but it surely would work better with a new system.

[lefkos]

aww man! the link is broken :cry:
is there an other place to download it?

[Kazan]

what is with the ****ing newbs and ressurecting 3 year old threads?

[Wobble73]

I think you mean