Cube map to starsphere?

Alucard

If you want, I can make a tutorial on starspheres (backgrounds), though it might take a couple of days. Maybe the admins could put it somewhere were it help everyone out.

Alucard

@ NeXoSE,

Give me a few days and I shall teach anyone wanting to learn.

Maverick

Tutorials are always good m8, even when you know how something’s done, reading a tutorial sometimes reveals entirely different approaches or what not.

Looking forward to it.

NeXoSE

Alucard wrote:
If you want, I can make a tutorial on starspheres (backgrounds), though it might take a couple of days. Maybe the admins could put it somewhere were it help everyone out.

If you could make a cube starsphere, i will exciting wanting your tutorial. Because my starsphere is humdrum (for seamless), i need make it more fascinating…

Thank you.

Alucard

@ Mav,

Is Akira the same Akira from Topfreelancers? If so, tell him I said hi.

Maverick

Yes he is m8, and I will.

Alucard

Oh, one thing, heres some of my custom work for the Topfreelancers Mod Update. A little insight, I’m inspired by Eve onlines supber* backgrounds. Don’t mind the ships or explosions as the are not final, as this was just a test for somethings. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_IXlc_MC8

Maverick

Yeah Eve was graphically stunning! That’s the kind of quality and appearance I want to work towards as well.
I have the graphical skills required though and of course the easy way around is to export stuff with UTF Editor, edit it, then import it back in, but I’m mostly interested in what you need to take into account when creating new ones from scratch. What are the max resolutions and ratio’s for starspheres, how does the Freelancer actually put the individual images together to a starsphere, etc.

Would be awesome if you could include some of that in your tut.

Timmy51m

Alucard wrote:
Been messing with them, almost got it. First off, they are grainy looking, very horrible to see. They look as bad or worse then freelancers. I’ll post some ss shortly.

Well done on getting them working. Any chance you can upload and link to one for me so I can see how they look. Don’t want you wasting time on them if they’re poor quality.

Forsaken

They look absolutely horrid Timmy… so grainy that even vanilla looks better.

Timmy51m

That’s a real shame. All I can say is thanks for taking a look at them and sorry for wasting your time guys.

Alucard

@ Timmy,

On the first page, I uploaded a vid showing them mapped on a cube in game, and yes they suck. Check it out if you didn’t see it before.