STARS modifies all the backgrounds in the game. Nabulae have been redone entirely. All planets have been modified too XRSGE Reaslpace Galaxy Expansion, the second level of galaxy remake, is in another page: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/1140/
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Changelogs
Version 4.1.0
Final Version STANDALONE for STARS ONLY users (NOT XRSGE)
Version 3.31
STARS for XRSGE, final version
Version 2.55
XRSGE Lite
Version 2.7
Many changes, bug fixes. New Solar system, improved distance of skybox (no more visible "end of a sector")
Version 2.1
MOD V 2.1 is released
The mod is updated to X4 4.2 and has a lot of improvements in the backgrounds.
Unfortunally I had to revert some gas giants back to vanilla, because the game stopped loading my custom textures. Should you find some other invisible gas giant or planet, just edit the material_library.xml, look for the sector (I put the name of the sector at the start of each section) and disable or delete the corresponding <REPLACE> </REPLACE>section
Version 2.0
Version nr.2 is a totally new version. Many things have been changed, the overall aspect of the skybox is cleaner than previous version, nebulae less intrusive.
Version 1.2.1
Reduced the size of the foreground stars. Both versions are available
Version 1.2
Reverted all gas giants in Split sectors to vanilla, to avoid issues with some highres textures. Removed the flickering from a couple of moons Background stars entirely redone, more visible but less intrusive ("it's full of stars!"). Reduced the size of the texture containing nebulae/stars for a better compatibility with all graphic cards
Version 1.1
Corrected the missing textures in the moons of PCAlpha and Bright Promise.
PLEASE ALWAYS CHECK THE STICKY POST FOR THE LAST UPDATES, THEY ARE NOT LISTED HERE NOR IN THE CHANGELOG
STARS This mod is also the base package for my Galaxy Remake that is made of 3 mods: Egosoft Forum Many new materials are displayed only with the new mod
Short description: STARS modifies all the backgrounds in the game. The stars are made more realistic and immersive. The skybox has been made less intrusive by regulating the intensity of light. All works ar best with Reshade or high contrast in the monitor. Nabulae have been redone entirely. The game looks much more as the predecessors X2 and X3 now, of course in a high resolution. All of the gas giants have been graphically improved into an higher resolution and sometimes different look. No more pixelation party there... All other planets have been slightly or entirely changed in many details. I've made tens of new models but they are available only to those who use XRSGE too. It is mandatory that it is loaded AFTER all the dlc and other mods. Should you do it, nothing will happen except that the modifications won't show. Same for other mods that introduce custom backdrops. Just be sure my mod loads AFTER and the graphics will be applied
PLEASE USE MY RESHADE SETTINGS TO MAKE STARS MOD REALLY SHINE. THE GAME'S GAMMA BY DEFAULT HAS NOT ENOUGH CONTRAST (v.5.1, not the 6.0 beta), STARS MOD IS CREATED HAVING AS REFERENCE A MORE VIBRANT CONTRAST OF THE SCENE
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