Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Posts: 95

Are you going to use real nebulae pics as background pics in the MOD? At least in the screenshots you've used a star birth nebulae pic...
so here's a link, there you can find nice pics of nebulae, stars, galaxies and so on, dunno if you already have all the backgrounds you need, just thought this might be useful...
[url="http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html"]http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html[/url]

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 22

nice pics!

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland, beyond the Rim
Posts: 164

Right, they are nice pics... There's only one thing stading on the way (maybe even blocking it ) of using them: our old friend named Copyright. It ain't cheap to buy the rights for those pics (they probably won't give those for free, all that an American can see is $$$ , and if they are used without permission... No one wants to think about it), but at least I'm willing to pay a few follars for them... If we all in here are we might see them ingame!

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Humans...
Yes. They are the key.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

[url="http://www.stsci.edu/web/Copyright.html"]http://www.stsci.edu/web/Copyright.html[/url]

You might want to check the copyright notice on those pics...

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland, beyond the Rim
Posts: 164

Well, I was not completely wrong... You really DO have to be careful with those pics, they said something about "any content that is not made by STScI": those individuals might claim copyright. Besides they are asking for appropriate acknowledgement (who makes up these words? ) and (voluntary) reporting of all use. Still, they might even kinda like the idea of getting their pics in the background of a famous games even more famous MOD , who knows.

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Humans...
Yes. They are the key.

-Delenn and Kosh, Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Yes, a foolish key... But who cares?

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Sheffield UK
Posts: 1913

backgrounds are basically covered, only 1 nasa picture is used of a gas giant, rest are repearmans. edited by me for use in the game, planets, are mostly mine, some from other sources...they are freely available to look at here.....

[url="http://www.btinternet.com/~ken.sue/effects.zip"]Backgrounds[/url]

note this is v1.0 i will be updating this soon to v1.1 (new planets and a few of the nebulas removed/improved)

not much will change i just want to include more familar planets, centuri prome recreation is there, as is mars, earth, moon, jupiter, saturn, i want background on minbar and other important worlds seen in b5, if people can post links to pictures of the planets i would REALLY appreciate it as i dont know what many of them look like, thanks guys, this is how you can help my part of the mod

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