This is a must-have for anyone with a decent graphic card. I experienced no slowdowns with my X800XL, and the planets are now a visual delight.

I am not sure though wether red stars actually radiate red light and etc. Maybe the effect is not very noticeable, at least it doesn't seem to have any effect on nearby ships.

And as someone said earlier, the new star background is really too colorful for my tastes. To be realistic, there should be color variation, but with very high luminosity, therefore every star should be pretty much white: some red-white, some blue-white, but not red-red or blue-blue. Stars of such low luminosity that they would actually glow red-red would be invisible from the distance the star background seems to be.

I know that with a powerful telescope you can create a very colorful image like this, but that's with a telescope and is not natural to the human eye.

They do, but stars only light their own planets. Ships are lit globally and are not affected by stars' light.

Hehe. Between this and Croc's ships it's apparent I need a lot more power. I never thought anything GC related could bring my system to it's knees.

Sure do love this mod though.

To make it work with DL you'd pretty much have to backport all the changes yourself into the DL files, since all the files are based on their DA versions (many of which are different from DL).

GC2 can only select from 10 images for the Class 0 planets at this time. I have requested that number be upgraded in the future, but there are no promises as to whether or not that will happen. As for now, there is no way to have more than 10.

That is correct Gavote

Oof, that sucks. Thanks kyro for replying, I guess this isn't for me then. Glad I didn't try it.

Maybe I will someday, was really looking forward to it now. Wish it said somewhere more clearly that it was DA only before I got all my hopes up, I'm such a noob...

Peter

Logic I'm not sure how you feel about this, but I wanted to offer this in case you're interested.

I love your mod. It is a true okeasure being able to jump around a galaxy that's so alive and vibrant, detailed and spectacular. But for myself, I pretty much only play Metaverse games and on Huge maps at that.

Having so many textures at the dimensions you use means people with machines not as fast as ours, will have a difficult time in larger maps. So just for myself, I created an alternate set of your textures that I could use for Metaverse games, and then I started to look at what I could live with (the best visuals vs. performance). The results look significantly better than the originals, yet still runs well... and of course this will work in Metaverse games.

If you'd be interested I'd be happy to send you what I've done so you can submit it. I have no interest in having any credit (not submitting it nor being mentioned)since all I did was re-size, swap around several images, and performed visual & performance testing. You did the real work and it's truly remarkable. I would have just e-mailed... but I already did that so that's why I'm posting here.

I fully understand if you're not interested - if it doesn't fit the grand vision you came up with. It'd just make me kind of sad that so many people would not be using such brilliant work in their every day games.

Best Wishes.

-Jeff

Jpinard i think thats a great addition

Logic i do miss not being able to use your mod at all in MV games.

Looking forward to the outcome of this!

OMG. Why would someone do that?!

BTW - Is that why I didn't get an e-mail validation yet after registering at the forum yesterday?

An oddity has occurred only since putting in the (gorgeous) HRG mod.

It seems that, in seven games now, I have yet to see a single bonus tile on a planet other than my homeworld. Not a single one. No +100%s, no +300%s...nothing, on over 60 worlds. They're all just plain-jane squares. Unloading the mod seems to correct the issue.

But it can't be that the HRG mod has anything to do with this, right? I mean, it doesn't do anything with game mechanics itself. Am I missing something? Where am I being the fool? Or am I just really really really unlucky in a very strange way? Is there a file I can tweak that will fix this? (Yes, I'm on 1.02.)

Sigh...back to basic graphics for a while.

Bingo.