FQM 5.00 Beta 10

[Baron Munchausen]

Just a note about whatever version was used in Balance Mod 1.05...

The stars look really great. They are so much more varied, detailed and realistic that I can't believe how drab the stock stars look now.

But, some of the planets are too bright. They seem to have a 'glow' in their own right around their rims -- as if the atmosphere was fluorescent -- rather than just reflecting the light of stars. It seems to be gas giants mainly. You need to tone down some of the gas giants a bit.

[Fyron]

Technically, they use the same base texture as stock, as far as detail is concerned. If you notice, the red star in stock has a nicely varied texture, with all sorts of faux-flare info. Sadly, for the other color textures, it was way over-saturated and made very boring looking. When I recolored everything, I used it as the base and avoided the over-saturation.

Gas giants have the same texture and glow brightness levels as rock and ice planets. Perhaps it is an artifact of them being generally larger than rock/ice, thus having a larger glow? It is all quite proportional, but the absolute pixel size increases as the planet model size increases.

With the new color-coordinated planet textures, the original purpose of the planet glows is lost (to be able to identify atmosphere at a glance). I like how they look though. Hmm...

...I can't believe how drab the stock stars look now.

Making stock look drab is my number one goal.

[Santiago]

I didn't think it had any effect but I caught it when inputting into an excel file and it disrupted my columns