how to mod the background?

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I would like to find the background texture, the one with the nebulas on it, so I can enlarge the nebulas and give them some additional colors. Not quite as bright as in Homeworld. Just enough so I can see my fog of war a bit better. Any ideas?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It's some proprietary image format... currently can't be modded.

The file to look at would *probably* be Space01.tiles.

The raw files are probably targa (.tga) like the ships, but then again what do I know ;) It's all geek to me LOL

If enough people ask for it and it's feasable (without slowing the engine to a crawl). Stardock might change this in a future version to allow us to alter a .pcx or .tga file in the Gfx directory.

PS - and for the record I vote for this! Even if not... maybe Stardock could create a new one for the expansion pack with a different color and feel to it (maybe move away from blues and try dark greens or reds for the expansion pack) The various colored nebula behind the races pics look especially cool! Just please not a multi-clored rainbow of stars ;)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
If that is done, something that would be nice would be to add some sort of randomizing for it at the start of a game.

So that one game might end up with the initial style, and another might have more of that dark green or red color style, or a number of other things, preferably something that stays with a particular game whenever it's saved/loaded, so that there's a more varied feel to different games. :)
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