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    Cool stuff, love the nebula!

    The text for some of the planets is a bit hard to read. Maybe change the color, or put a dark stroke on it, or something?
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    Here are some of the planets that I made for this: the sun, mercury, earth, and mars. Steel, you can use the mars for Khutaath until I put out the tut sometime in the next few days.
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    Here are some more: venus, the moon, neptune, and pluto. I know the color schemes may not be totally correct -- call it artistic license, call it bad memory, or call it laziness as I didn't want to hunt down the real NASA pics Once I get the rings right I'll put up the gas giants. And yes I know pluto was de-planetized and turned into a dwarf planet but I'm one of those of the old faith
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    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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    Thos planets are gorgeous, but I especially like the sun, you can almost feel the molten lava sliding around. Was this done in photoshop? A little explanation / tut for the sun would be most welcome, thank'ee kindly!

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    Great job on the planets, made me go and revisit mine!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    Steel, you can use the mars for Khutaath until I put out the tut sometime in the next few days.
    Believe me it would work great for it - and I actually like it better than the version I currently have in my entry. Excellent work my friend. I think the only thing I might change would be to 'brighten' it up a bit.

    Looking forward to seeing that tutorial.
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    Wow ! Tell us when this tutorial is out ! I wanna know how you did those ^^
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    Excellent. This is a great map and I especially love the planets.

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    Here's an update. Changed the font again...I never seem to find something I like that also is legible and lends itself to stylizing. So here I'm giving Boost SSI a test drive to see how it looks. The ships are all just pixel art that I doodled up less than 50 pixels across, then heavily stylized (I think the only layer style not used is drop shadow).

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    Excellent map. Having the location and disposition of the fleet is a great addition.

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