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Any idea why the planets seem to have another planet sticking out of them? I have checked and rechecked my folders and there doesn't seem to be anything causing it.

Yes, I had the same problem with planets inside other planets after installing numerous mods. If I remember correctly I had to delete the shading.png file from customization, then changed theme to DW Original then changed theme back to DW Extended to resolve.

Its because of what I said above. Before the planet and overlay files could be any size and the game would resize them for you. Now for whatever reason it doesn't and the planets and overlays have to be the save exact size as the vanilla planets.

That's the problem. Over in the GEM thread we talked about it, and I fixed all his planets and overlays. Someone would have to do the same for any that you are using.

I hope they fix this issue as it only seems to effect the planets and overlays, at least what I can tell.

ORIGINAL: AstroCat

Its because of what I said above. Before the planet and overlay files could be any size and the game would resize them for you. Now for whatever reason it doesn't and the planets and overlays have to be the save exact size as the vanilla planets.

That's the problem. Over in the GEM thread we talked about it, and I fixed all his planets and overlays. Someone would have to do the same for any that you are using.

I hope they fix this issue as it only seems to effect the planets and overlays, at least what I can tell.

ahhhh ugh..........thank you for this. Going to have to switch to GEM planets/overlays until a new set of HDs is released. I just really extremely terribly hate that planet set. The coloring is COMPLETELY wrong. Still better than vanilla, still wrong.

ORIGINAL: Unforeseen

ORIGINAL: AstroCat

Its because of what I said above. Before the planet and overlay files could be any size and the game would resize them for you. Now for whatever reason it doesn't and the planets and overlays have to be the save exact size as the vanilla planets.

That's the problem. Over in the GEM thread we talked about it, and I fixed all his planets and overlays. Someone would have to do the same for any that you are using.

I hope they fix this issue as it only seems to effect the planets and overlays, at least what I can tell.

ahhhh ugh..........thank you for this. Going to have to switch to GEM planets/overlays until a new set of HDs is released. I just really extremely terribly hate that planet set. The coloring is COMPLETELY wrong. Still better than vanilla, still wrong.

I believe you may have misunderstood astrocat.

The main difference between JPG and PNG images is that PNG images usually have a layered structure.
In the case of these planets it has 2; the foreground (the actual planet) and the background, which is empty (not white!) and can be filled in by the game.

In older versions of the game the relation of the size of the foreground image to the background layer didn't matter, the game would auto-correct them, the GEM mod was made for older versions of the game and depended on its engine to correct the image-background relation.

The GEM mod doesnt just contain planet images but allso overlays which are not the correct size for Universe and they are what's causing your problem.

I noticed this problem allso in some of my planets but I fixed most of them before releasing version 1.0 of my mod. ( and fixed the last with patch 1.1)
If you are experiencing this problem it's because you installed the outdated GEM overlays, in particular the shadow overlay image from the GEM mod is too small in relation to its's background and this is what makes you see spheres inside planets.
You need to replace them with the vanilla, which I posted a download link to a few posts above.

Nvek's correct. If you go to the GEM thread and download my version 3 update you will get all fixed GEM planets, including correct naming and the fixed overlays, which you could use with any mod.

Hmm, well i know i was getting the issue with the overlays from here. I'm going to upload the base of my mod with Gem's planets for now and i'll give things a try again later, right now i'm scrambling to get my first upload together and figure out the best way to release a color update to msnevil's beam weapons[it is missing two colors he wasn't able to make]. Thanks for the info!!!

Hi, sorry for digging this up, I'm the original auther of this mod, but I have lost it, and obviously the link is no longer working.

I was wondering if anyone still has this mod stored somewhere, and if so could please upload it or send it to me thanks.