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[Captain Adam]

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[Klingon Fanatic]

  WOW! AMAZING! I can't wait for the finished project!

[Corbomite]

Hey, no fair! You can't make them so good looking that we get distracted and then blown up! 

[Klingon Fanatic]

There are lots of good space background images in this SFC 3 Mod file:

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command-3/downloads/sfc3-background-mod-full

So far, what you have blows them away.

[Klingon Fanatic]

I was also thinking of duplicating 1 or 2 of each set and adding them to subsequent sets in a smaller size to appear far away but also give the illusion that the ships are travelling from sector to sector and you can see distance somehow, what do you think?

That would be cool.

[Corbomite]

I guess it's a good thing that Dizzy isn't doing this or we would have Orion Slave Girl wallpapers as space backdrops. Hmmm, come to think of it... 

[Corbomite]

Question: Why do some of the planets look distorted?

[Corbomite]

There are several that look oblong, like the fourth image down, the planet in the center looks good, but the one on the right looks distorted. Same with the last image with the planet on the bottom. It may be the SS transfer to the forums. Perhaps they don't look that way in the game?

[Corbomite]

Yes, that's much better. All of the previous offenders were not in the center of the shot, so it may have been that fisheye lens effect you get from false perspective with computer graphics. I used to see it all the time in DDO.

[Corbomite]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. We aren't going to sit around staring at them for long anyway. You might want to consider not using planet shots, but that would mean staring over on some of those and I don't want you to do that if it is really that daunting to get them to look good. They are definitely an improvement on the stock graphics.

[Klingon Fanatic]

It's okay, if you want I can compile what I got so far, all you have to do is backup your space folder and back up the \MetaAssets\ServerProfiles\SinglePlayer MissionMatching file, then in that file change all the space backgrounds to space00-space03, then play a campaign and check them out for yourself. Let me know

I plan on waiting until you are done. It will be well worth the wait. Some of those planets (Mars?) would look great as game planets too.

[Corbomite]

Yeah, it looks like a box around the edges.

[Darkdrone]

looking Really really nice there Captain Adam

DD

[d4v1ks]

Amazing pictures.
They blend very nicely into the background. 
Good work.

[Ervinc]

Beautiful great work

[[UFP]Exeter]

love hpe they look.

[Tus-XC]

did i send you all my workfiles for this? might help a bit maybe.  think i still have them somewhere to.

[JanB]

There are lots of good space background images in this SFC 3 Mod file:

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command-3/downloads/sfc3-background-mod-full

So far, what you have blows them away.

I have checked those out, I felt we need better, most of those mods are years old and fortunate for us we have improved our computers significantly esp the operating systems, I think we can handle better.
I will make two version, HD and SD. It will be pretty big but most Star Trek Mods are, I just downloaded Star Trek Armada 3 and let me tell you it was nearly 1GB but the ships blew me away, freakin beauties.

Hey, that's my mod you're talking about 
But you're right, I made those in a couple of nights because I wanted to have better backgrounds than the stock ones and I wanted them quickly. You did a much better job, actually using photoshop and blending the edges with the precise degree of blackness of SFC space.

[Darkdrone]

Captain Adam added a load of background textures to my dropbox from Starpoint Gemini not sure they be any good for you but just incase they are
there in Space BackGrounds Folder in my Dropbox

Hope they help

DD

[d4v1ks]

I think they are good.