Well i don't think i'm going to leave it. I'm not going to just sit here and be accused of things when all i was doing was trying to help. Not my my #$%% fault he can't use a readme. No more help for him then. And who said FL wasn't dead with stupid attitudes like that? Bollocks to all this.

There is no command line with this utilty just for clarification. You start up the BuildStarsphererunner.exe, type in the name of the ini file into the big empty space so 'stars01' for instance, press the 'RUN BUILD STARSPHERE EXE button and roberts your fathers brother. No command line, no messing with dos, no nothing. The command line option was in the original version where Dev couldn't be bothered to make it easy for anyone.

You'll always have issues with people who won't play certain types of mods or play on certain servers, that will never change. Just look at Discovery, i've only ever tried it once and never again after being talked down to and treated like a 2 yr old by the admins there just because i questioned some of the RP elements for new players.

Merging of servers, mods and communities will never happen, it's how it is now and will stay like this until we're all dead or finally move on. There's a few hundred players left, about two dozen modders who actually know what they are doing and that's it. Face it, it's a dead game and we're all holding a candle from the good old days, problem is we're running out of wax.

I've created more starspheres with this than i know what to do with, it works fine. I'm using XP to create these so no idea if it will work with Vista or W7. If you've filled out the ini file correctly by reading the readme file, then your new starsphere ends up in the same folder with the same name as the ini file you entered. An example, mynewstarsphere01.ini will end up as mynewstarsphere01.cmp

This is taken from the 1.1 readme

COMPILING A FILE
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Start the BuildStarshereRunner.exe. Enter the name of your starsphere, then click on the big button that says Run build starshere exe, and file will be generated into a CMP file for use with FL.

This little compilation addon utility was made by Gibbon & Crassicauda simply because the original version expected you to use the command line runner which for me was a big no no.


Enjoy

Gibbon & Crassicauda

That code you posted is exactly the same in the quickfix and i don't get the crashes. So it's not that. Altered any ship loadouts for any of the ships mentioned in the encounter or messed with any patrol paths?

Doubtful as atmospherics would reflect the light which is why you won't see this effect in reality and why it doesn't look very good in games. Seen this in many games and it always looks wrong. On stations and ships it's fine, but not on planets. Anyway, make it an option if you can, then people can choose it if they wish.

Was going to say emissive textures are nothing new as they have always been there, i can't tell from these shots the subtle difference you claim there is. What is impressive however is the specular mapping, very cool indeed.

If it's scenery, which it clearly seems to be, why not just make it a 3db file?