What makes you think it’s scrapped? It’s used by the Baden-Baden & Curacao planetscapes.

http://www.cozmicfunk.com/dapage.html

Contract work on the space game “Freelancer” and project “Lonestar”. Work includes building 3D models and textures, animation, texturing and refining models, designing and building space ojects from asteroids to debris fields etc. Follow the links lsited below to find more information and graphics/screenshots.

All of our work is done manually I’m afraid. I have no idea what FX Composer requires to work.

Well this could be easily implemented if W0dk4 releases the source for the dx8-9 upgrade. All that has to be done is pull the locations of the ships, render them inside of a sphere mesh onto a render target, then add it as a post-processing effect. It’s the same method I’m going to use. Already tried rendering the mesh directly to the screen but with the inherent matrix instabilities, it shook alot. Same reason a ship shakes at the edge of a system.