[LoneKnight]

There has been a discussion on IRC not so long ago about that. Making animated skyboxes is technically possible, the same way it is possible to have animated glowmaps. However, it is not technically feasible, because you'll have to load every single frame of the animation, let's say 30 frames, for each of the 6 faces, at 2048². That'll be more than sufficient to make most recent systems asplode, not to mention older ones.

Remember the fps drop you have looking at Karunas and Sanctii in WiH ? It's ridiculous compared to what that would do.

Okay, so while that may not be feasible, what about animated planets or stars? (I am pretty certain the Sath Supernova 'animation' is simply the scale of the image increasing.) Could be just as cool to have explosions and events happening on planets nearby, not to mention it would be less processing intensive than the entire background.

[IronBeer]

X3 and its progeny had animated planets, but I have no idea what system they used to do that. Planet as a model, perhaps? Either way, it's probably a moot point, since X3 is notorious for making machines cry blood.

[Commander Zane]

X isn't all that bad really, not until there's PPC-equipped M2s or M1s going guns blazing, those projectiles are framerape.

[The E]

X3 and its progeny had animated planets, but I have no idea what system they used to do that. Planet as a model, perhaps? Either way, it's probably a moot point, since X3 is notorious for making machines cry blood.

X3 planets are a moving planet layer over a static texture. No big deal.

Now, animated skyboxes are possible, but you need special skybox models with rotating "subsystems" to do it.

[Retsof]

If they are small enough you could do it with EFF planet bitmaps... probably, haven't tried it myself.   And if they are big it makes it as unplayable as a skybox anyway.

[LoneKnight]

One day...

[Rodo]

And that's from?

[Commander Zane]

They're Behemoth-Class Battlecruisers from Starcraft.

[Gortef]

Scary enough? They're among us...

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Scary enough? They're among us...

Royal Shivan ftw

[Black Wolf]

That is among the greatest images mankind has ever produced. Well done sir!

[LoneKnight]

And we thought they came from subspace...bah! Knew it was the British all along!

Plus, this:

[Colonol Dekker]

It's why HLP London is such a big success. 

[Marcov]

Isn't that Photoshopped/edited (both the original and with the man sitting on top and an Apollo flying nearby)?

[X3N0-Life-Form]

<sarcasm>No, someone built a live-size shivan statue in a parc, with made Keanu sad and the apollo is some kid's high-tech toy.</sarcasm>

(sorry, couldn't resist )

(But I appreciate the effort put in the Shivan's shadow)
(And a 1:1 Shivan statue would definitively rock!)

[Angelus]

btw, does anyone have a Shivan as 3D model? Preferably in a format Max can read ( 3Ds, obj, .dae).

[Deadly in a Shadow]

btw, does anyone have a Shivan as 3D model? Preferably in a format Max can read ( 3Ds, obj, .dae).

Vassago's Dirge has Shivans, real shivans.

[Colonol Dekker]

So does JAD3 ( . Y . )

[X3N0-Life-Form]

But they are on a plane.

[Colonol Dekker]

As nature intended Anyway.. PCS2 can export submodels i thought