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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Sallegans are another tough one. Not so much because of the brightness, but because the ships are so darn small. Some of the early ones just look like the stars in the background. Very frustrating.
Of course it could just be that we are all so addicted to this game that our eyes are going bad from staring at the monitor. 
Geoschmo
The Piundon, Praetorian, Terran, and Sallega shipsets were all done by the same artist -- Tim McElwaine. He admitted that they were produced to MM's specs
before the game was actually ready to test them. So, he had no idea how they would actually look in game play and had gone on to other things by the time the game was available for beta testing. Most of the other sets were tested in the game and modified to look better. Last year he posted to the SE4 discussion group that he was re-rendering his shipsets to look better but that MM would have to release the modified graphics since they owned the rights. I've been pestering MM for the improved graphics ever since but have not had the slightest reply.
You'd think that SE IV
GOLD would be the perfect opportunity to use improvements like this, too. Has anyone compared the graphics on the gold disk to the originals?
[ 01 April 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]