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Ratjin
Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:55 pm
#1
One of the more profound mysteries to me is where the suns are in all these systems to which we travel. I can see the light of the suns reflecting off the planets, moons, and so forth. And yet there's no sign of the suns. Are they hidden behind the nebulae? Yet they're visible from the ground, so one would think that they'd be visible from space?
Was it some sort of practical decision on the part of the devs? Were the suns too blinding in actual play? Did it mess with the UI transparency too much and make everything unreadable/unseeable?
I miss the suns.
Was it some sort of practical decision on the part of the devs? Were the suns too blinding in actual play? Did it mess with the UI transparency too much and make everything unreadable/unseeable?
I miss the suns.
XercutusMeridian
Sun Dec 12, 2004 3:27 pm
#2
Ephon is correct on that. I agree. We need to be able to see the stars that are near us.
Einsteinb
Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:08 pm
#3
Actually the hubble telescope takes black and white pictures. They add the colours in once they receive the images.
Sorry to hi-jack, but interesting fact.
JoKen_Jash
Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:26 pm
#4
I am so annoyed by the dev's lack of realistic thinking. No suns, tons of nebulae... Did the stars all go supernova or something? Look at every scene of footage showing the space around these planets in the movies. What do you notice? No nebulae. Not even the slightest hint of it.It literally hurts my eyes to fly around the Yavin sector, even with nebula density down to minimum. And, on most planets, you can't see the suns either. And where the heck are those 2/3rd drawn Star Destroyers orbiting half the planets anyway?
WillinB
Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:59 pm
#5
lol, on the nebulae: when seeing the deep space sector, I thought it looked good because it had no nebulae 
It was such a change from all the other sectors.
It was such a change from all the other sectors.
WillinB
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:26 am
#6
LOL! I was wondering about this to. They are visible from the ground, but not space...lol. Wonder where they went?
WillinB
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:27 am
#7
odd..if you look at the 360 degree screenshots like this you can cleary see a sun. Wonder why they took it out...?
ephon
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:49 am
#8
The same reason why every system is within a rainbow of brightly colored nebula, with an asteroid field to boot. I feel Im playing Jimmy Neutron sometimes, not star wars. Nebula would not look like that to the human eye anyway. Cameras are much more sensitive to color than the eye. most of the spectacular Hubble images the devs must have looked at while making the game, would be mostly the void of color If you were actually in one.
AlphaX
Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:51 am
#9
Yup, it's quite the mystery how Tatooine is still a desert with both of it's suns missing.
Naplam
Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:04 am
#10
Maybe the suns were unbalanced so the devs nerf'd them?
Or the planes are hiding them.
Or the planes are hiding them.
Message Edited by Naplam on 12-13-2004 12:05 PM
Modo77
Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:35 am
#11
Don't you mean stars, considering star wars is in a galaxy far far away I think our Sun being there would be a little wrong 
ochad
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:43 am
#12
What's really funny is that I never noticed they weremissing until reading this thread.
Zanholo
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:47 am
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I am thinking if they were there, we'd be bitching about how bright they are and we want 'em removed. I know just the brightness of the spinning galaxy in kessel is enough to make me want to do all my dogfighting with that bright mass to my back...
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