Reamping the graphics?

[khran]

For one throwing around the word elitist so lightly you fail to realise that by upgrading graphics many people would be left being unable to play Discovery. Of course, doing this is in no way elitist in itself is it?

Most of the changes that I believe are being discussed would not be particularly detrimental to performance. I tried Shattered Worlds out for kicks, and for the most part its just nicer star backgrounds and some new planet textures plus ENBSeries mod effects. There are a few others like improved particle effects on gates/lanes and a nice new docking ring model. As small as most of the changes are though, they do have a noticeable impact on the aesthetics of the game.

I'm not talking about adding DX10 shaders, bump mapping, soft shadows and double poly counts. If someone wants to slap together some nicer backgrounds what is the big deal with doing that?

AGAIN, my only reason for using the term "elitist" was because a number of people were simply shooting down the idea with no deeper argument than "gameplay > graphics". If thats the case, why bother giving us the option to activate ENB, discuss faction stations, or even offer new ships? Why can't we just reuse all the vanilla ships. We don't need an Outcast Bomber, we can just use the Sabre model but give it dif stats. Don't want the mod size to get too big. :rolleyes: Some of the people posting in this thread are doing nothing but stifling creativity for the sake of it.

I'm not talking about a major graphics overhaul that is going to seriously impact performance. I never even said I thought it should/had to happen. I just think its absurd to simply shoot down someone's idea without a second thought because its not "your way". Hell, I'm sure it'd be possible to release a high-res texture pack that could be an optional update for people who wanted to run it. Even star backgrounds and whatnot could be included. It doesn't have to be a FORCED upgrade.

I realize I may have been a little harsh with my initial post in this thread. But give me a break. "My god, stop making such a fuss about graphics! As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't improve gameplay!" is not constructive. No one was even making a fuss. Starscapes and particle colors were brought up and those are simple, easy, low system stress ways of increasing the ambiance/aesthetics of the mod.

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