"Systems inside the L-Cluster will have a completely black skybox, since the cluster lies outside the galaxy."

Perhaps just being pedantic here, but the light from our galaxy would still be extremely visible, just limited to one side of the skybox. Elite Dangerous has some fantastic space skyboxes, a good reference might be what you see from one of the systems at the top/bottom of the galaxy.

Thank you, both for the response and for its swiftness.
Your message has taught me a bit about how the game works, and I appreciate that.
Best wishes, have a great weekend.

@Straiada Thanks for the suggestion! Given that mod's complexity compared to mine, I'd say its author is the one to ask for compatibility patches. I don't want to appropriate any of their work and, frankly, I don't want the hassle of trying to keep my mod compatible with theirs. :P

My suggestion persists.

Could there be some way to make most (perhaps over 90%) skyboxes be dark and have the remaining ones be from Immersive Beautiful Galaxy? That'd be wonderful, as that mod is majestic at the same time extremely invasive in my opinion... and nothing beats the sheer cold of utter space that this mod offers.

lost this mod and forgot the name of it, remembered the quote, searched "leonard mccoy" and immediately found it

My bad completely, it looks like when running Dark Skies in conjunction with Black Galaxy Sky (which shouldn't overwrite system skies?) it turns every skybox black, but this mod works fine without it.

@DaslyG It works on my end, try uninstalling and reinstalling? Also check your graphics settings; on the lower end the stars may not be clearly visible.

When adding this mod the skybox for every system is just black.

on error logs:

[13:30:42][persistent.cpp:46]: Error: "Unexpected token: lens_flare_ghost_pow, near line: 139
" in file: "gfx/worldgfx/star_d_class.txt" near line: 139

yes, same in the l-cluster

@chernobyl What does it look like outside the ship designer? Is the cube visible there?

this isnt l-cluster but is the same

https://postimg.cc/vDLWFv57

L-cluster dont have the any space but have a big cube (the system inside)

i send u image

@chernobyl That's working as intended; the L-Cluster is outside the galaxy so the sky is a lot darker. :)

l-cluster dont have any visual space (vanila nor ur mod)

@Frigglish Fixed now, thanks!

Changes will not impact the new toxic star introduced in Toxoids, but it will continue to work for all other stars regardless. Just needs a one-file update.

One of my all-time pet peeves with this game fixed! Thank you

GG W

Thank you!

Say (​verb, /seɪ/): express something using words; mean something.

You're thinking of "speak" buddy but thanks for trying to teach something you don't understand.

It doesn't "say" anything... But, it does "read". Just sayin'.

Under the thumbnail it says the date, not the version but thank you.

@tukkek It says under the thumbnail: "Updated 14 Sep", i.e. 3.1.. Also, the change notes note the current version.

Can you please include in the description what version this mod is for?

@Jungo I just set the star background to use stars.dds instead of the normal nebula backdrop. I didn't duplicate or modify the file at all.

I was looking at your file format and I understand. I just can't figure out how to save my .dds files as cubemaps with paint since my photoshop .dds plugins isn't working. Did you use the stars.dds and just cut the texture on top of it and re-saved it as .dds?

@Jungo I just used the stock "stars.dds" backdrop from the galaxy view. The only custom texture is "black_space.dds", which is just a black square. Sorry, I know that's not very helpful. :P

if I may ask, which settings are you using for your .dds files when saving them? I'm trying to make a similar skybox mod.

@Chris Permission granted! Good luck with your mod! :D

PERFECT! Just the mod I was looking for... Don't get me wrong, nebulae are beautiful, but not every Solar System is inside or near a nebula (like our own Solar System), so this definitely raises the realism/immersion several notches, particularly if you play as Humans starting in our Solar System... THANKS!

@irony man I'm afraid not, both mods edit some of the same files.

does it work with realistic star colors?

Ah, well. I'll just have to compare and see which one I like more. Dark Skies has the edge so far. 😉
Hopefully I can get it to work with Real Space.

@Mythril Sage Not compatible, sorry. :(

Is this compatible with Beautiful Universe v2.0?

no more lightpollution!

Curious, after un-subbing and subbing again, it works like a charm. Prior to this, it also gave me a version warning, which it doesn't now. Launcher shennannigans, I guess.

@Lumpy The Steam version works on my end. Are you using any other graphical mods? Realistic Star Colors, for instance, is not compatible with this.

Doesn't seem to work for me, can anyone confirm this is an issue on my end?

Should work in 2.5 now. Sorry for the long wait, everyone!

I never play a game w/o this mod! but it does not work w/ the new update? thanks for your work!

Appreciated, playing without this mod after all this time had me realize how over-the-top the vanilla skyboxes are. Can't wait to contemplate the emptiness of the void again as soon as this gets updated!

@Lumpy Alright, thanks. I WILL get this working against asap, I promise!

For me, the mod does not currently work, unfortunately.

Can anyone verify that this does work on your end?

@Grave Not sure, sorry.