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| momax | Date: Friday, 26.07.2013, 00:35 | Message # 166 |
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| Enjoy your vacation Space Engineer: SE 0.97 is simply great both as astronomical and astronautical software!
Bravo to you 
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Friday, 26.07.2013, 15:47 | Message # 167 |
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| Few changes:
1) Implementing separate sprite texture atlases for galaxies and nebulae.
2) For nebula dust sprites, using Solaris's sprite mod.
3) For nebula emission sprites, used old dust sprites like Retsof suggested here.
4) I found that galaxies looked better with old sprite texture, so I don't change it.
Screenshots are taken with Skyboxes/Impostors/FB disabled (in Graphics settings menu). Open them in a new browser's tabs and compare by switching the tabs:
OLD galaxy and OLD nebula:
OLD galaxy and NEW nebula:
NEW galaxy and NEW nebula:
Glow becomes more irregular, but it virtually washed out dust details. First (old) screenshot looks better IMO...
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 26.07.2013, 15:55 | Message # 168 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) First (old) screenshot looks better IMO...
I agree.
All forum users, please read this!
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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Friday, 26.07.2013, 16:00 |
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| Aerospacefag | Date: Friday, 26.07.2013, 16:05 | Message # 169 |
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| SpaceEngineer, I like the view on galaxy of 1st screenshot, but old nebula looks a bit lumpy compared to the new ones. The volume of mid-tones is increased, and it's better, I think.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Friday, 26.07.2013, 23:53 | Message # 170 |
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| I also agree regarding the old galaxy: It definately looks better. As for the nebula I don't see much difference
Actually I agree with Harb and SpaceEngineer: Old galaxy and old nebula sprites are better: I compared the 1st and 2nd photo side by side and it is clear that old galaxy and old nebula sprites are significantly better 
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PC2:Core2Quad X9770@3.2GHz, 2 cores/4 threads 4GB DDR2 RAM@1GHz, GTX-285 GPU 1GB VRAM(DDR3)@1.24GHz, OS:WinVistax64SP2
Edited by neutronium76 - Saturday, 27.07.2013, 13:05 |
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 01:56 | Message # 171 |
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| Old galaxy for sure. Nebula is harder to decide, but I think I agree with aerospace on the new one.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 08:32 | Message # 172 |
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| I think that the old looks much better for both. The nebula has much better structure with the old sprites, you can really get a sense of its three-dimensional shape better. Also, the glowing gas particles having a smooth appearance seems better to me.
All forum users, please read this!
My SE mods and addons
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| n3xt | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 10:53 | Message # 173 |
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| Definitely the OLD Galaxy and NEW Nebula 
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 11:43 | Message # 174 |
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| Old galaxy and new nebula are the best IMO.
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| Red_River | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 13:32 | Message # 175 |
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| 1st and 2nd pics get my vote as well...
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| Salvo | Date: Saturday, 27.07.2013, 15:46 | Message # 176 |
 Star Engineer
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| I "vote" for the second, the new nebula seems better to me
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770 GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 270 RAM: 8 GBs
(still don't know why everyone is doing this...)
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Sunday, 28.07.2013, 21:17 | Message # 177 |
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| Well, we may start a poll for that
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| Gondor2222 | Date: Sunday, 28.07.2013, 21:55 | Message # 178 |
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| I actually think the new galaxy model looks better. In the old one, the dust appears much thinner (judging from its opacity) than it does in real life, as shown in the following photo:
In the old galaxy model, there are almost no areas where the dust completely blocks the area behind it, while in the new galaxy model and in the picture shown there are a large number of areas where the gas does block the area behind it.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Sunday, 28.07.2013, 22:09 | Message # 179 |
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| Quote (Gondor2222) In the old galaxy model, there are almost no areas where the dust completely blocks the area behind it, while in the new galaxy model and in the picture shown there are a large number of areas where the gas does block the area behind it.
You can increase dust opacity by modifying galaxy models.cfg parameter:
Code
absParticleBrightnessCenter 12.0 // original value = 8.0
absParticleBrightnessEdge 7.5 // original value = 5.0
this will make your milky way look like:
which is a bit too much but I did that because I was trying to reduce lluminosity of the bright parts of the galaxy without affecting the brightness of the galaxy when viewed from outside the galactic disk and a bith further out (i.e. from the close intergalactic space).
PC1:Core i7 970@3.34GHz, 6 cores/12 threads, 12GB DDR3 RAM@1.34GHz, 2x(SLI) GTX-580 GPUs 3GB VRAM(GDDR5)@1GHz, OS:Win7x64SP1
PC2:Core2Quad X9770@3.2GHz, 2 cores/4 threads 4GB DDR2 RAM@1GHz, GTX-285 GPU 1GB VRAM(DDR3)@1.24GHz, OS:WinVistax64SP2
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| Fireinthehole- | Date: Monday, 29.07.2013, 11:16 | Message # 180 |
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| I think OLD galaxy and NEW nebula are most beautiful
Love Space Engine!
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