How to make Black Starsphere

DragonRider

Well, yeah.

I need a starsphere that is black. Only black. Absolutely nothing else.
I tried replacing existing starsphere textures with a black image, but I didn’t work.

Also, please do not suggest “turning off background stars in the options”.
I have something in mind.

So, any idea?

kmiller

As far as I know it isn’t possible. It was attempted in Neo Terra. You can have everything black except the tiny little background stars.

DragonRider

I suppose I should explain what my goal is.

You know you’ve got the starsphere textures, like crow nebula, edge nedula etc.
And then you have those small white stars.

Well I want to have only those small white stars. To give it more simple space-ish look. Like this for example.

http://phosproject.com/wp-content/themes/phos_theme/images/7.jpg

FriendlyFire

Comment out every starsphere but the stars line in the system? That should just render stars.

DragonRider

FriendlyFire wrote:
Comment out every starsphere but the stars line in the system? That should just render stars.

How would that work?
And is is doable trough UTF Editor?

cata123

No, with notepad, in your System.ini.

For example in New York system :

[Background]
basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp

put a ; in front of your background nebula or starsphere with stars :

[Background]
;basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
;complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
;nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp

That should make a black space ambient, no stars no background.

DragonRider

cata123 wrote:
No, with notepad, in your System.ini.

For example in New York system :
[Background]
basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
put a ; in front of your background nebula or starsphere with stars :
[Background]
;basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
;complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
;nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
That should make a black space ambient, no stars no background.

Removed only the line:
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
and it worked like a charm!
Exactly what I wanted.

However, is there a way to do this directly trough the .cmp files?
I plan on using this on the Discovery mod server, and they don’t like people tampering with .ini files.

Anyway, thanks alot!

kmiller

DragonRider wrote:
cata123 wrote:
No, with notepad, in your System.ini.

For example in New York system :
[Background]
basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
put a ; in front of your background nebula or starsphere with stars :
[Background]
;basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_basic.cmp
;complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01_stars.cmp
;nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
That should make a black space ambient, no stars no background.
Removed only the line:
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_li01.cmp
and it worked like a charm!
Exactly what I wanted.

However, is there a way to do this directly trough the .cmp files?
I plan on using this on the Discovery mod server, and they don’t like people tampering with .ini files.

Anyway, thanks alot!

CMP edits will get you equally banned.

cata123

Its a modding community. We talk about how to modify your own. If youre playing a specific server, well, should talk with a server administrator to remove starsphere CRC check.
And really starsphere CMP is not a hack, who cares about what background you have there, loading the bandwidth with starsphere cmp check is a totally waste of time.

FriendlyFire

kmiller = alley = current Discovery server programmer extraordinaire and admin.

She’s merely indicating that CMP edits are also watched for in general, and that no exception for starspheres is currently there (and I’m not sure that adding one is worth the effort).

adoxa

Extract the attached program to your EXE directory and modify your shortcut to use it. For example, if your shortcut contains [c]“C:\Discovery\EXE\Freelancer.exe” …[/c] change it to [c]“C:\Discovery\EXE\nonebulae.exe” Freelancer.exe …[/c]. I don’t think it’ll be picked up as a cheat, but haven’t actually tested it.