what is this sky box you speak of?

thanks multi! i being a laymen didn't know what the heck you all were talking about.

so far the sky boxes seem just about right, I still think the green one is REALLY green, and i have yet to play a game where I get the orange one, has it been removed?

I just want the skyboxes to fit their respective stars.

and black hole stars with black backgrounds would be nice here or there.

If you want all black and stars you can disable the color portion of the skyboxes altogether. Looks like Multi figured out how You can also choose which of the beta 1 skyboxes (there are 5) you wish to you use without relying on chance - it's not much more complicated.

Blair is a fat woman?

Damn. it is only 2k. Well I put iit into my textures folder and changed the references in the skybox file to all reflect 6 but it does not seem to work and I was looin gfor a black background.

You realize that if there was a black hole nearby that it would suck down every solar system in the vicinity? Plus, by its very nature, it would be nothing more than a black spot?   

Double post

Another way to skin the cat is:
Goto the "Mesh" folder and backup the 5 "SkyboxBackdrop#" mesh files
Make 5 copies of the "SkyboxStars" mesh file
Rename these copies as "SkyboxBackdrop2", "SkyboxBackdrop3", ...., "SkyboxBackdrop6"

Another interesting file to play around w/ is "SkyBoxProperties" in the GameInfo folder. As always backup your original file. Note there are two "SkyBoxProperties" files in this folder, the one you want is 1.92 KB and is a "SkyboxBackdropData" file. Just use notepad to open it...the file seems to define some of the lighting properties (exert below).

diffuseLiteColor ffe7e3d6
diffuseDarkColor ffd9ce9f
ambientLiteColor ff29699c
ambientDarkColor ff143f62
specularColor ffffffff
dustCloudColor ff3c7da8 - I hate the dust clouds so I changed this to "000000"

wtf is ffe7e3d6?

I'm not a fan of variety so I changed the lighting info so that it is the same for each of the skyboxbackdrops.

Hmmm... something strange on my end then and it is a cherry install to boot. I copied it over and started the game and got lots of colors as always. I then went into the config files and changed all the boxes to read six and I still got issues and even warnings that it could not find the dds file. I'll look into things after work when I have time.

Anyway, your screenies look fantastic. A solid black background is by far the best in my opinion.

Do you think you could post a more thorough how to mod?

I managed to replace the backgrounds with the file you provided, and did end space to look as dark as it should be, but the stars didn't show up well.

How did you manage to get the stars to look so good?

I thought that might be the case as well, but Blair said it's completely random.