System Starspheres

[raider51]

Well, in Vanilla, every system had a different background (a.k.a. starmap or starsphere) - though similarities are seen throughout the Houses or Edge Worlds, no Vanilla system looks like another - I'm speaking about the background only here, sun(s), stations and planets of course do make each system unique.

In Discovery, we enjoy a multitude of new systems, but every single new system has the starsphere of an already existing one - Omega 49 with the background of Tau 37 is an example.

My question is, shouldn't we change the starspheres of at least some of the new systems? I'm not talking about every single one - I know most are fitting well and we've grown accustomed to them.

Systems that are far away from the core of Sirius though, such as new Edgeworlds, Guard Systems and Gallia Systems should differ from the rest, in my opinion - especially Gallia as a major House deserves some kind of 'own' theme.

This thread is not about if it is possible - it is. (see below)

I'd rather like to ask the community if we should do it. I for one would welcome some visual alternatives to the already existing variety.

After I got a short tutorial by Seth on the how-to, I tried it out myself this afternoon - importing custom textures for system backgrounds works fine. Here are some screenshots of Manchester - with different starsphere each time:

Violet
Blue
Bright/Cloudy

These are only images with custom/modified textures by me (and these are pretty crappy - I suppose I could create something better with a bit more time) replacing vanilla textures - it's also possible to create an entire starsphere from scratch in order to get other results. I'm no modeller though, so I'd need a dev's hand there:P

Sleip,

What you have done is more than great...congrat
I'd ask one thing: If you make an own starsphere, where do you save? I mean you have your own mod i guess but does the FLE recognize your starsphere if you save it into your mod folder?

regards,