So with Jey's help, we can now put arbitrary geometry into galaxies at arbitrary locations using effect objects and custom visages. I'm experimenting with hyper putting in a few layers of flat squares with colored high quality cloud textures on them, with the bottom one being at about -600 in the z axis and 4096x4096 in size as it appears in the galaxy. (Source file is 512x512 for now.)

I really like how the huge cloud texture that's far below the ecliptic makes the galaxy feel like it's part of some vast structure, and makes my ship feel really small as I'm flying through it. A picture can't really do it justice, but here it is anyway, just in case anyone is interested.

Looks nice! I like.

Glad to see you're doing scruples justice.

flattttt

Oy Jeff, can you check how "distant" solar system would look like?
I mean they are usually or even always on the same height as player ships, I wonder how would they look like far bellow, at -5000 z axis or even more.

The Fuzz still looks too flat. Maybe raise and lower(above and below on Z axis) the "Cab" part in the center?

Other than that and the stars still visible, it looks good.

Also, maybe add a small solar system(incorporating that moon that orbits the other moon) and a series of mission chains based on the area?

Church - ships are not done yet - a lot of them are not there or look flat I believe it is low priority atm . - Panther looks sweet

You really don't see that Enforcer template ship that JeffL is piloting do you?

That's awesome.

That looks pretty frickin sweet!!!

Just imagine how cool EOTU could look with this system.

Those ships look like 2d images stretched and inclined, seriously something is completely fucked up with rendering. It looks the same as if some1 just put them into photoshop or gimp and used perspective tool, lacks of depth of ship.

No i played c2 so that is why i told u not to worry about ship images - they are not done ...
It does look great JeffL