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Fill your city's sky with stars! These files replace the maxis background and make your city appear as though it's floating through space. Perfect for spicing up your nightime screenshots and city journals. Be sure to read the included readme file before installing.




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First let me say that this is a smart idea. I can't believe how much better this looks than the maxis background. That said, the tiles are way way too obvious and are not nearly black enough. All in all you get an 8 because you have such a great idea

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...but you lose two points because I want it too look much cleaner. But then I guess that is just my fault for wanting the best of everything. Really awesome idea and thanks for telling me how to personalize it in the readme!!!

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Thanks. This was the most randomized and dark photograph I could find on the web. Because the tiles are so small it's imposible to do this without creating a pattern (unless you use a solid colour of course). Anyway, feel free to play around with it in photoshop (darken it, etc).

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I paintbucketed the 'black' part with pure black and it came out the same. I wonder how that yellowish fade gets into the corners. I would LOVE to see ur idea polished to perfection. I will mess around and see what I can do. This is really dope!!!

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nice Idea!! hmm what about a virtual reality background? you know with just glowing lines... =P

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Actually, I haven't noticed an obvious yellowing on my computer. However, the three or four really bright stars cause a pattern (see the screen shot). Ideally all the stars should be nearly equal in intensity (this could be photoshopped).

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does this mod just change the back round in city?? or does it change the reagion view as well ? as i use just part of the mars mod to change the backround in reagion view.

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well i see it does just change the backround in city complments the Mars UI wich is just reagion backround and icon changes nicly .Ps Darkened it and it looks much better.

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Pss if you have a photo edit tool use contrast to darken to -28 and use irvanview to rechange the photo back to Png then just use your replacment photos . Pss this could be fun changing the backround with a planet or some such.

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It shows up only in the city view, both night and day. I may play around with it and rerelease an improved version. If anyone else wants to rerelease it go right ahead.

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Awesome idea. Can you mod it so the stars only appear at night.

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A new version is now available. Johnb: I'm not sure that's possible; in any case I certainly don't know how to do it. Its pretty easy to swith between the night sky texture and a sky blue texture though (be sure to exit the game before swapping the files).

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Wow, it is beautiful and contains very realistic looking stars. Did you actually use a star atlas, or are they random? very nice, C

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Carazariah, this is an actual photograph I downloaded off the web. As some people have pointed out, it does generate a rather obvious pattern when used as a background. My new background (Starry Night) is composed mainly of 'artificial stars' I created using photoshop.

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