The engine that makes the gaseous substance that gives better weight to the galaxy is pretty cool. But i was poking around to see how it works, and i caught some glitchy stuff. Obviously not an urgent problem, but something that's worth noting.
The following example uses this test texture:
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The result in a small galaxy is this:
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Issues:
* Any pixels on the outside edge of a gaseous graphic get stretched a long way. Doesn't matter with current graphics since the edges are generally transparent, but seem to be a sign that somethings wrong.
* You'll notice that the text in the yellow corner is always backwards. Apparently the image is either mirrored vertically or horizontally, but never not mirrored and never mirrored both ways. We'd get a more natural, irregular effect if each graphic had more than these two positions, especially if 90° rotation was also sometimes thrown into the mix.
* And most importantly to me, the scaling range is too extreme. Sometimes the graphic can be shrunk so small that the star's halo pretty much covers it. This is what got me to investigate, since sometimes big gaps are visible in thin spiral arms. At max zoom the minimum size of a 256x256px gaseous graphic should be about 100%, i.e. 256x256px on screen. If the artist wants blank spots, he can throw some blank files in, but i don't think they look quite right.
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I realize there are way more important things that need work, so now that i got this off my chest, i'll go file a FT, and hope somebody gets to it eventually.
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