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Custom Starspheres

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Post Mon May 28, 2007 6:58 am

Custom Starspheres

I know I have seen this here on TLR before, but cannot seam to find any info on it now. How do you go about making custom starspheres for use in systems?

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Post Mon May 28, 2007 4:02 pm

They are very simple, they're just cmps textured in high-res pictures, mostly from hubble.

Post Mon May 28, 2007 4:33 pm

lancerlover lmao, hubble, your kidding right? XD

as far as i kno, starpsheres are made up of multiple objects like... the main "sphere" then a few planes added with textures on them... thats all i have to my knowledge.

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Post Tue May 29, 2007 2:35 am

@ lancerlover, concidering the largest texture is 256x256 I don't see where you get the high-res from.

@ fadius, I've seen a few that have had thier textures changed but I can't think of anyone that's made a custom one, but I dare say a sphere or geo-sphere with inverted faces would do the trick.

**shuffles off with a new headache**

Post Tue May 29, 2007 2:38 am

well, if you import one into milk, it is rather tiny, i think FL sort of expands it once its loaded.

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Openlancer Project

Post Tue May 29, 2007 3:32 am

The easiest way to make custom starspheres is:

Find a starsphere you want to costumize and copy it.

Open it up with UTF editor and extract the textures (remember it must be extracted as tga files)

Then do whatever you want with them in photoshop or what you might use for this.

and import them back in the file (which you have renamed to what you want) with UTF editor.

Quick, simple and almost painless! Heheheh...

Hope this helps...

Post Tue May 29, 2007 4:58 am

yea, but you gotta remember, not each system uses a different starpshere, if you want each individual system to have one unique, from scratch is the only way ^^

but yes, if you want to do it that way, that works to!

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Post Tue May 29, 2007 7:18 am

Thanks. I have opened one up on UTF Edit and noticed there are actually many parts to a starsphere file and many textures. I will make a copy of one of them and play around with it.

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