FQM Star Brightness

[Markavian]

All those screenshots look very bright, I think 200 looks not much different then 120, and I prefer the brighter 200.

I would also say that I think the model sizes are too big, I would prefer to see single-hex stars to spread out the distance between planets.

[Raapys]

Now that you mention it, single-hex stars might actually be a great implementation.

[Thy_Reaper]

How would single hex stars spread out the distance between planets?

Personally, I prefer the multi-hex stars. Stars aren't small things, so they shouldn't be as small as planets.

[Raapys]

I wasn't thinking specifically to spead out planet distances. I think the suns are really just nothing more than visual annoyances when they're as big as they are. I always preferred SE IV's style. The planet/star models in the game aren't as much trying to represent the real scale of the suns/planets as they are there just to inform the player that a planet/sun occupies this grid, thus 'realism' is not even a consideration.

[Fyron]

Stars will not be reduced in size. Doing so would do nothing to spread out planets more; that would require increasing the size of the hex grid to add more available rings.

[Baron Munchausen]

Oddly, I don't like the way any of the 'dimmed' versions look as screen shots. But the stars do seem to be too bright in the stock game. I guess the brightest of the dimmed versions, 200, would be best.

[Fyron]

I should note that in the process of revamping the textures yesterday, I made the white stars a tad dimmer.

star chart

[narf poit chez BOOM]

140. Doesn't hurt my eyes. at all.