I've got to say: these systems are real masterpiece. X4 designers should learn from these mods of yours. So...there's an obvious question: do you have any plans to port your mods to X4: Foundations? And one more - it seems that your mods are working only with Ency mod. I like the idea and looks of Maelstrom and Omicron Lyrae clusters, but I'd like to change the nebulae in Albion and De Vries to vanilla. I've asked this question in Ency-mod topic on egosoft forum, but it seems I'm going to wait a millenia for the answer. Maybe you could help.
I use the ency-mod because it improves the visuals of the systems a lot. And its not possible the use them without it, because it not only changes the appearence, but also the size. For example, the planet in omikron lyrae, which the new sector silent ocean is behind, would be big enough to encompass the whole sector without this mod. Removing the nebulas is possible, but difficult because you would need to delete specific entrys from an xml file, i can look into it, if you want. But i also use these mods together with the encyclopedia mod, i suggest you try them out first, maybe they do the job for you: https://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/360?tab=posts https://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/365 .
Besides that, i dont intend to port my mods to X4. Before i started working on Treasure Chest i looked into the matter and realised, its much easier to create the kind of star systems i want to see with XR than X4. This has to do with pretty bad map design in X4 where there are only sectors and no layers, making it hard having a good overview. But also bad and cartoonish looking textures i would not want to use, forcing me to port XR textures aswell, which i dont like to. Overall i like X Rebirth alot more than X4 Foundations, cause X4, even tough having some strenghts, has also alot of weaknesses compared to XR. The problem with textures and graphics as a whole can also be seen with stations and ships, even ported ships and station modules from XR look in X4 much worse than in XR. One of the big reasons why the star systems i created look this great is, because X Rebirth is a pretty powerfull and versatile game and lets me do all of this great stuff with much less effort than what would be needed in X4.
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And one more - it seems that your mods are working only with Ency mod. I like the idea and looks of Maelstrom and Omicron Lyrae clusters, but I'd like to change the nebulae in Albion and De Vries to vanilla. I've asked this question in Ency-mod topic on egosoft forum, but it seems I'm going to wait a millenia for the answer. Maybe you could help.
I use the ency-mod because it improves the visuals of the systems a lot. And its not possible the use them without it, because it not only changes the appearence, but also the size. For example, the planet in omikron lyrae, which the new sector silent ocean is behind, would be big enough to encompass the whole sector without this mod. Removing the nebulas is possible, but difficult because you would need to delete specific entrys from an xml file, i can look into it, if you want. But i also use these mods together with the encyclopedia mod, i suggest you try them out first, maybe they do the job for you: https://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/360?tab=posts https://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/365 .
Besides that, i dont intend to port my mods to X4. Before i started working on Treasure Chest i looked into the matter and realised, its much easier to create the kind of star systems i want to see with XR than X4. This has to do with pretty bad map design in X4 where there are only sectors and no layers, making it hard having a good overview. But also bad and cartoonish looking textures i would not want to use, forcing me to port XR textures aswell, which i dont like to. Overall i like X Rebirth alot more than X4 Foundations, cause X4, even tough having some strenghts, has also alot of weaknesses compared to XR. The problem with textures and graphics as a whole can also be seen with stations and ships, even ported ships and station modules from XR look in X4 much worse than in XR. One of the big reasons why the star systems i created look this great is, because X Rebirth is a pretty powerfull and versatile game and lets me do all of this great stuff with much less effort than what would be needed in X4.