[CptWhite]

Hi everyone im trying to make an in-atmosphere environment for the mod but I'm running into difficulties.  I need to thin out the nebula so not as many poof clouds appear and  also increase the visible distance that you can see (by around 10-12 times more than current distance)  I dont know how to go about this as i cant find any helpful variables in the tbl.  At least not yet.  So I'm throwing it to the public - can you help me?

Anyways here are some of my early shots:

   

   

   

   

 

[Grey Wolf]

What is taht ship flying around? A Ulysses Mk. II?

[QXMX]

Wow, is that a mountain those last few shots?  It looks  

You might be able to modify the nebula poofs to be more transparent.  I don't know anything about the table file that controls the nebulas, but you might find some things there too.

That's a sweet looking ship too.  What species?
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[Jabu]

My god! Have you people never watched Babylon 5?

That's a Centauri Sentri-fighter. Really manouverable but crap armour  

I think someone made an atmosphere mod sometime. Max?

[CptWhite]

To answer your questions about my planet here it is - im flying at close range there cos the nebula is too thick

 

[Darkage]

just something i made  but is this what you mean? Holland has tomuch water in it damm that would mean i'm dead now

   

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[Nico]

the atmosphere mod is in the robotech campaign, but there's no more view range than yours  . Maybe if you put black areas in it, all the black areas shouls be perfect transparency? not sure but worth a try.

[Jabu]

Pure green is transparent in FS2, but I don't know if that applies to nebulae. Black would probably just make it really dark  

Hey, if that happened to the Netherlands last week, I'm dead and you're all just imagining this  

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[aldo_14]

Hey, I can see my house from there  .  Sorry I can't offer any useful help, but what you've got looks good anyway.  Good luck.

[Jabu]

Hey White, get a shot just to the right of that one, I want to spot any irregularities in my home country  

[Fury]

Oh God! Someone does not recognize Centauri Sentri fighter?

[Jabu]

I guess some people are just poorly educated in classic Sci-fi  

[KillMeNow]

ulysses mark 2 - my god people - is freespace 2 the only sci fi you have ever seen or played acaully but come on if if i post a the enterprise will you people recognise it????

[Snipes]

I wouldn't  

I'm not a trekky/star wars fan...  

[Darkmage]

why not just use my mod? you place it round your planet.. and Bingo, you can fly in and out of atmosphere!

[Darkmage]

it's going up to a website gimme a while. and then you too can fly in atmosphere!

[CptWhite]

Im eagerly awaiting this Max  

gimme the link when its ready

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[Max Sterling]

Uh... you could just download my MOD...??



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[Kazan]

i'll be modeling a dust-ball for us to mass driver bombard   [actually i already have an earth - model with a hella nice texture that gets ruined by being scaled down to game size]  the only problem is fs2 itself doesn't like the planet to scale.. fred2 can handle it...

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[CptWhite]

Im putting this mini-project on hold for a while now

I dont *need* to have an atmosphere - that was just a nice touch...the main idea was to be in orbit of earth...something i can achieve with just the model in space..but it looks a bit naff around the edges.....ive been thinking about how to go about simulating an atmosphere around the edge of the planet - something i now think i can do - when i can be bothered -  but it involves individually creating 40 texture maps which is a BIG pain in the ***  and ive just had enough of it for now.  It also requires some modification on the model im using - its all possible to simulate fairly effectively a near earth situation now.  Note this IS a simulation - if you want, you can just fly closer and closer and closer until you crash into the surface of the model (it'll be about 10,000 m away) but you wont be able to get around the back of the model - the game court marshals you first - yes the planet surface really is HUGE - i think its 200km in diameter - i have a 850 processor and a TNT2 graphics card and it runs fine....

Textures need doing again anyway cos theyre slightly flawed.

So back to texturing the regular ships for now.  I would definately like to further this an some point though.....For the final fight during the civil war...this would look ACE for then....anyways thanksyou to anyone who gave me suggestions and praise  

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