Registered: Jul 2001
Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
Posts: 185

Updated nebula.lst and suns.lst for FS2MBU

I just made a trial run on a mission, and it looks outstanding. If the TBP staffers would like me to, I can zip the two files and e-mail them to you, unless you've thought of this and have them altered already...

Anyways, if anyone wishes to host this file, I'll be glad to send it to you. Note that you _must_ have Kazan's Freespace2 Mission Background Utility for these files to be useful.

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Location: Finland
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I never liked the Background generator. The only good thing with it is that you can copy the background from one mission to another...

But when generating a background. It never makes them what you like them to be... I'd prefer manually placing the whole damn thing...

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Sheffield UK
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yeah e-mail here (just cos im lazy)

i think it can give you idea sometimes, create the background and thn edit it until your happy, at the very least it gives you a nice colourful setting

and sometimes it doesnt look half bad

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Just remember that planets, comets, and the gas nebula all have to be placed manually.

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- Maurice Freehill

"There is a certain art, or rather, a knack to flying.
The knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
-The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

"Next time you wonder why I am always tediously close to falling off into the pit of insanity, now you know what assaults me each time I turn the computer on."
-IceFire

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: England
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Originally posted by Darkblade
I never liked the Background generator. The only good thing with it is that you can copy the background from one mission to another...

But when generating a background. It never makes them what you like them to be... I'd prefer manually placing the whole damn thing...

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quote:

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Originally posted by Darkblade
I never liked the Background generator. The only good thing with it is that you can copy the background from one mission to another...

But when generating a background. It never makes them what you like them to be... I'd prefer manually placing the whole damn thing...

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: UK
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The background generator will never do as good a job as an artist placing things manually. On the other hand it does let you get a reasonable looking background into a mission very easily. It's especially useful if you edit the data files to only include the nebulae you want in your background. Allowing you to give your backgrounds a consistent theme.

Please copy the files to I.P.Andrews@dcs.hull.ac.uk . Thx.

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