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Galaxy chart

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24 Oct, 2024 @ 6:39am

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Description

Mod adds graphic elements and reworked galaxy texture (smoother whirlwind).

Clouds are more visible to stand out and galaxy has more of an milky way colour.
(I might make a darker version of this later:) )

This is purely for immersion purposes only, since the layer containing the chart
is the moving part of the vanilla galaxy texture and cant be used as a static grid.

Probably in the future we'll get also grid with sectors for the galaxy overlay
and this will become obsolete/not usable, but until then...

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update

This is for the clarity on how the galaxy works (vanilla or modded):

there is 1 galaxy whirlwind texture (in vanilla) png.
This texture is used 4 times in 4 layers. 1 of which moves at different speed.
The reason why it is in different layers are colours and opacity.
It makes the illusion of moving nebulas and whole galaxy.

In Galaxy chart mod I reworked the texture (rendered new),
since in some details you could see unpleasant pixelation or holes.
I guess it was the work of 8bit and the layering.
The texture is now much smoother.
Also its now used only twice (I found there is no need to use more of its layers) and 2 different graphics of the chart (moving separately lines and circles, giving kind of the "clock" impression:) ).

When/if there will be the option to make a static grid I will make new art,
in the manner of DW:U, where the sectors will be actually useful tool.
Until then its just visual fluff for old school scifi immersion :)

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Galaxy chart version without the nebulae texture (only grid)

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355165637

22 Comments

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Halvance [author] 13 Aug @ 1:03pm

Hey guys, thanks for trying out the mod.

I checked into it and unsubscribed > it was off.. then I re-subed and mod worked.
The same for just the Grid version.

Can't say what' s causing you the issue, but I could only guess it might be some other mod overlaping with it (which itself incorporates some of their own version of the galaxy map and overrides it).

Drillerman 12 Aug @ 8:41am

Does not work for me either.

hickorie 7 Aug @ 4:59am

does not work for me as seen on the previews.

Averath 14 Apr @ 5:15pm

I got it to work by using the beta branch, but do not understand why. I was told that had to restart the game on the discord server, and don't know if I did. So I assume that was probably my issue! Also, I'll likely try the grid version, too.

Halvance [author] 14 Apr @ 5:14pm

hey @Averath there shouldn't be any problem with it. I mainly use my grid version of this.
When I switched it, there was some weird issues with colours, but I unsubbed and resub this mod and after adding it in mod menu and restarting the game, it was eventually ok.

I suspect after the big update, maybe some issue after update?

It should work (try unsub/resub, add in mod menu and restart the game. Hopefuly it will work)

Averath 12 Apr @ 11:38pm

Hmm. I must be doing something wrong? I subscribed to the mod, went to the Modifications option in the main menu and clicked the mod so that it was checked. It is the only mod I have, since I am new.

I loaded up a previous save, and created a new game. Both instances show no changes whatsoever. Is there something I have to do to enable it otherwise?