Why do the moons in different phases have different textures of their surface? I thought Masser and Secunda have tidal locking with Nirn like Moon with Earth IRL. Anyway this is a good retexture.
Does this require MWSE/MGE XE? Edit: I don't think so. New question: I know this is a big ask, but could you maybe do optional files that include the two moons packaged as either the 4k and 2k versions?
Why is the implied light source different on each moon? I don't know if this is some deep lore thing but having the shadows on Masser and Secunda be at slightly different angles looks very strange.
There isn't really anything I can do about this. The light sources are exactly the same on each moon, but the game rotates the moons differently which causes this effect. The original game and many mods use soft shadows so it's not as visible but with the more realistic hard shadows I used here it's really noticeable.
iirc the vanilla game handles masking of the Moons using the "tx_mooncircle" textures. Deleting any in your textures folder will revert to the vanilla ones and maybe fix the issue.
MGE XE also changes a few things with how the Skies and Moons are rendered, and if you have atmospheric scattering enabled, this should also fix the issue. Though iirc when the Moons fade in and out during the day/night they might actually become translucent. They should be opaque when they're at full visibility though.
Wow! Thanks so much for the helpful links and uploads for creating such things! I have been asking in the discords for awhile on how to do custom edits to the sky and planets no one ever knows and there are n write up guides on how to go about it so this is a great start! Thanks!
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Edit: I don't think so.
New question: I know this is a big ask, but could you maybe do optional files that include the two moons packaged as either the 4k and 2k versions?
MGE XE also changes a few things with how the Skies and Moons are rendered, and if you have atmospheric scattering enabled, this should also fix the issue. Though iirc when the Moons fade in and out during the day/night they might actually become translucent. They should be opaque when they're at full visibility though.
It's only really noticeable on the shadowed portions of the moons. A bug I can live with, I think..
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