System Starspheres

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The blue one looks a bit too bright, in my opinion. It looks like you just took the awesome pink background you did and ran a "Change to Target" brush over the top of it.

It actually is an entirely different texture, made from a photo I took some years ago. I admit it's too bright, but the backgrounds I posted here are by no means a final submission for the mod. These are just examples by me to prove that changeing starspheres is possible and makes sense.
I also am well aware that any experienced dev on here is able to do this in a more professional way. I just wanted to give the topic a major bump.

I fully support this if the new spheres are consistent in look with the old ones and they include the same features as the others. For instance I want to be able to see the walker nebula in the proper place in the star sphere in languedoc and any other system it would be visible from.

Actually, what you request complicates the process.
Including known elements such as the Walker or Crow Nebula or the Barrier is possible - but it requires a complete starsphere-creation from scratch with Treewyrm's above-mentioned method, if you want to have them in the exact and correct place. We'd need modellers for that (not saying we don't have any, just that it'll complicate the process).

The Languedoc example; even the vanilla starspheres don't always have all the nebula from the Sirius sector visible. Currently, it's visible in Languedoc because that system uses a vanilla Bretonian starsphere (if I am correct) - the Walker nebula appearing in Gallia is not a top priority, in my opinion - it's the other side of Sirius and you don't see Walker in the Taus either if I'm correct.

About the Manch/NL star; it's the only point in the game where you clearly see a brighter star directly through a gate, I think. Including landmarks as the Nebula is extra work, but possible - and makes sense. Including stars that happen to be exactly behind the middle of a jumpgate is just a major pain.

Don't misunderstand me - I too would like to see refreshing but consistent and fitting starspheres - and those for Gallia should contain a certain (colour) theme, of course.
The thing is, we don't have the same means as Digital Anvil, so I think we should start out with simple things - such as finding fitting and nice themes for new starspheres.

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