This mod has been combined with SkyCycling and is now called Cosmic SkyCycling.

Cosmic SkyCycling automatically cycles 160 textures, and has a screen to select the textures and cycling options.

See: Cosmic SkyCycling

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Cosmic Night Sky contains 129 textures for the Oblivion night sky.

These are mostly images of Nebulae, Galaxies and Star Clusters.

Cosmic Night Sky should ideally be used in combination with SkyCycling Mod by Sycamore. This will automatically cycle night sky textures as you play the game, and greatly enhance your experience.

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Download Options:

1. Cosmic Night Sky 2. This is the latest 2.0 version, and contains 129 textures. Nearly all the older textures have been enhanced. 25 new textures have been added to the previous (1.4) version.

2. Cosmic Night Sky Trial. This contains 10 textures (5MB) and is meant for those who want to try this mod, without the 60MB download.

3. Cosmic Night Sky 1-4. this is the 1.4 version of this mod containing 104 textures. Some of the textures in this version look radically different from their current incarnation.

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Installation:


You need to replace one texture.

There is no .esp file to activate.

The texture for the night sky is present in the folder: Oblivion/Data/Textures/Sky and is named:

skynebula01.dds

For users of Natural Environments, this texture resides in: Oblivion/Data/Textures/NaturalEnvironments/Sky.

Please back up this file (optional).

Unzip this mod to a folder on your hard drive. This will create a set of 129 folders named for the nebula/galaxy used to create the replacement texture.

Each of these folders will have two files: a jpg image of the nebula/galaxy, and a corresponding skynebula01.dds texture.

The jpg images are also present in the main folder to aid selection.

To use the textures, copy the desired skynebula01.dds texture and paste it into: Oblivion/Data/Textures/Sky. Say "Yes" when asked to overwrite the existing file.

To use a different texture copy the desired skynebula01.dds file into Oblivion/Data/Textures/Sky.

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Installation if using with SkyCycling:

Select the folders with the textures that you want to automatically cycle, and copy these (entire) folders to:

Oblivion/Data/Textures/Sky


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Credits:

This mod was inspired by: Sky Candy by Cordwainer.

I want to thank Sycamore for all the work he did on his SkyCycling mod- which greatly enhances the utility of this mod.

The images are mostly from the archives of NASA and Hubble and Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive. There are a few art and fractal images that I put in just for fun.

I used Paint, Microsoft Office Picture Manager and DDS Converter to manipulate the images.

You may use these textures as you wish. Please inform me ([email protected]) if possible.

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Future Plans:

I will continue to add textures to this mod, and keep trying to improve the older textures.