Uhm... I know I'm in the minority here but... what about wormholes? I barely leave my wh these days, will that mean we see no improvement? I remember reading a dev comment once about a plan to make successive wormholes look more evil and dangerous the higher level they are. Is this still happening? Thanks.

edit: Also, on the concern that ships will not be as diverse in colours now, could you not have them reflect different colours from different coloured stars in each system - ignoring the nebulae?

Great Job!

I'm somewhat and somehow disappointed of the granularity chosen for each unique backdrop. Region based granularity seems too big for my taste. At first I thought you would notice the changes in the position of nebulae at a solar system basis, each time you jump from an stargate to an other.

Of course, but what *is* the background colour? I'd love to keep that which you speak of (which I also like) but at lovely high resolution like in these screenshots :)

Yep, but I think those images are generated procedurally, so no much man work involved I hope. I really wonder if the real problem is that those images are too fat (in Megabytes) for the client to have too many of them.

I'm hoping that this is just the first iteration and the next (or one after that at most) would add finer granularity. e.g. iteration #1 adds Constellation granularity and iteration #2 adds Solar System granularity.

So, no nebulae for wormholes. PCOs screwing wormhole PI. Talks of removing vital ABC ore from wormholes.

Warm and fuzzy feeling... gone.

The cube maps ( that's the technical term for the nebula textures ) are actually hand crafted, starting with 3d generated clouds, then color-corrected and touched up by artists to remove rendering artifacts and add extra "oomhp" to the renders. Each cube map sees a considerable amount of work. So if we would have wanted more, they would have looked less cool or taken longer to produce, meaning that the artists would be tied up painting nebulas and not fixing lag.... It's always a balancing act. That said, the system we developed alongside rendering the nebulas does allow us to customize each solarsystem, and we will be making use of that in the future, for lore and such.

The cube maps ( that's the technical term for the nebula textures ) are actually hand crafted, starting with 3d generated clouds, then color-corrected and touched up by artists to remove rendering artifacts and add extra "oomhp" to the renders. Each cube map sees a considerable amount of work. So if we would have wanted more, they would have looked less cool or taken longer to produce, meaning that the artists would be tied up painting nebulas and not fixing lag.... It's always a balancing act. That said, the system we developed alongside rendering the nebulas does allow us to customize each solarsystem, and we will be making use of that in the future, for lore and such.

The cube maps ( that's the technical term for the nebula textures ) are actually hand crafted, starting with 3d generated clouds, then color-corrected and touched up by artists to remove rendering artifacts and add extra "oomhp" to the renders. Each cube map sees a considerable amount of work. So if we would have wanted more, they would have looked less cool or taken longer to produce, meaning that the artists would be tied up painting nebulas and not fixing lag.... It's always a balancing act. That said, the system we developed alongside rendering the nebulas does allow us to customize each solarsystem, and we will be making use of that in the future, for lore and such.

So, no nebulae for wormholes. PCOs screwing wormhole PI. Talks of removing vital ABC ore from wormholes.

Warm and fuzzy feeling... gone.

The cube maps ( that's the technical term for the nebula textures ) are actually hand crafted, starting with 3d generated clouds, then color-corrected and touched up by artists to remove rendering artifacts and add extra "oomhp" to the renders. Each cube map sees a considerable amount of work. So if we would have wanted more, they would have looked less cool or taken longer to produce, meaning that the artists would be tied up painting nebulas and not fixing lag.... It's always a balancing act. That said, the system we developed alongside rendering the nebulas does allow us to customize each solarsystem, and we will be making use of that in the future, for lore and such.

Artists don't fix lag anyways.

It would be great to see the EVE Gate around Genesis and in Amarr. Even as just a bright star in the general 'direction' of New Eden Solar System

Dark space in my EVE, I approve whole heartedly. Now all that remains is for you to make it so, that the star significantly dims when you get further away from it within a system. I'd like to feel that I'm flying inside an actual star system at great speeds and moving large distances, instead of moving within a small room with a single static lightbulb in the middle of it.

At 40 AU my Megathron oughta look like something out of the deep sea, glowy highlights picking out a dark mass.

CAN you make the original nebulae available as backgrounds for our desktops?

Yeah, solar intensity reducing as distance to star increases.

Make the out-system really dark and lonely. Then add more glow to all those windows (viewports, energy channels, whatever they are) on the ships.

At 40 AU my Megathron oughta look like something out of the deep sea, glowy highlights picking out a dark mass.

But there's no dust out that far for your light glow to reflect off of.

I think what he's saying is that there should be far less reflection off his ship from the sun at 40AU away from the system star. His ship should not be illuminated, except for the running lights and windows.