System Starspheres

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I thought the starscape was just a texture painted over the edges of the system to give the impression it's alot bigger than it really is. What else can you actually do with a starsphere other than put a different texture on?

Actually, in a system, you are set inside of huge models, mostly orbs, which are inside-coated with the starscapes themselves. Special 'starmarks', as the Barrier or Nebulae are added on plain surfaces that fade to transparency (see above: Treewyrm explained it a bit)

This is how it looks in UTFEditor; a model for the starsphere.
This is the whole thing with textures enabled. However, black areas are transparent, as are the edges of the textures. See Treewyrms post above for the way how to do that.

Starscapes can take special forms to achieve interesting effects though.
For example, there is the tunnel form you have in Omicron Kappa (don't know if that's the name; the one with the robots and monkeys...) or a very flat form in that one Nomad system (pink, with a glow at the edge).

Edit: I think I should let Treewyrm do the explaining part... he understands way more of all this than I - sorry of my post was misleading.

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