It is very easy to adapt my backgrouns mod from Reunion (and many thanks to Spacefueladdict who is helping with a new release: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... =realspace).
So what I'am xperimenting now is a general increase in all possibe visual aspects of the game.
Backgrounds have also been modified, the new ones are "more realistic" than my previous release, less coloured nebulae and more accurate and detailed skybox. Of course I'm giving high attention to the new terran sectors where...well..many nice things have been created...but also really ugly ones!
Planets are so my first object of improvement. textures textures textures...
Unfortunally I can only import body files into Gmax but no scene, and in any case no attempt to export it back works!

So if somebody can help...it is a very easy task what I need is to import a close_planet model (as example, Argon), to make it amost flat (it is an half sphere, I need it to be just a bit curved surface), to export it back (with same materials and mapping). That's all
Up to now I already have colected a massive package of modifications, so I'll release soon it as stand alone mod.
Here an eycandy .... new planet (new clouds and sea and terrain) new sky for the solar system (milky way).
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This planet is nice so from far away as from very close, no need to have different planets for different distances....if we ever had the possibility to enlarge sectors we could have it at the center and navigate to/from it with accelerators (scripts) or SETA. Unfortunally 4000km is the max width possible...maybe someone can convince egosoft to release a patch for it?


And..ladies and gentlemen...I present you..the earth!
from distance...
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and closer (same model)...
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