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Updated with several new planets. Here's some previews.

A continental planet claimed by the mighty Romulan Star Empire[:D]

Had to take snapshot of this. Couple of the new gas giants and moons in one shot.

WOW!!!!!

I love the Gas giant...........Fantastic!!!!!

Can these be downloaded yet???

Yip. I'm updating the link on the 1st post.

Way 2 Go Igard! [&o]

Nice. [&o]

Excellent work!!

Yup!  Fantastic stuff, cheers!

Btw, can I ask what settings you use when saving exactly, I made a planet and it appeared really dark in the game, but yours and the originals are fine [:D]

I use the default settings on GIMP. Select png as the file type, name it and save it. Maximum compression as it doesn't seem to make a difference with these.

Make sure there isn't a 'save gamma' option checked. I don't use that and don't know what effect it'll have.

ORIGINAL: Igard

I know what you mean, Baleur, it's very tough keeping motivated to do this stuff. That's why I don't put any pressure on myself, I'm taking my time with this and if anyone wants to help, then that's very much appreciated.[:)]

Hehe, true and speaking from experience here... Ive made slow progress since I actually started.. partially because of college which also made me hugely inactive on the forum. :p

Hello again, Conflictx. Yes Distant Worlds can't be very condusive to getting good grades. Keep it up, it'll be worth it in the end.[;)]

There is a growing collection of SiFi Planet bitmaps at
http://freebitmaps.blogspot.com/

That looks very useful indeed, Duael. I'll take a look at this sometime soon. [8D]

here's one

...and another, is it Arrakis?




ooops! Came out a bit big, sorry!

Beautiful, drillerman!

Drillerman, I know you can do this yourself, but would you like me to convert these to pngs using the same method as the rest of them?

Some of these are a little large don't you think?
I know you're trying to increase quality but planets in game are never rendered this large so you're only losing all the detail when they appear in game. Not to mention the increased memory requirements when all these are loaded at once.

You're probably right. I didn't want to make them too small as there's no going back from that and keeping them large means that any enhancements to the games rendering (we can dream can't we?) we can keep up with it. [;)]

I've noticed some increased load times with these, but performance is good on my system. There's a warning on the first post about the possible performance hit so it's really up to the player if they want to try it out and it is still WIP.

There WILL be a low res version, but that's only when I (or another generous person with too much time on their hands) gets round to creating one.