Enabling this won't disable achi's ? This looks beautiful.

I see no difference

TOO HOT! IT BURNS US!

hha lovely

Long lost relatives!

It helps a little, most people still spell it wrong the first time regardless :D

Crazy! I'm sure taking out the spaces helped... it's such a pain registering for anything lol.

Vanderhoeden here, but I think before my family left the Netherlands it was van der Hoeden!

#//SlipperyPete* Oh neat! My last name is van der Hoeven. Can't say I've run into many of those haha.

I had a double take when I saw the author name as Vanderhoeven, very similar name to my own!

@minurominerwin Hahaha. I absolutely agree! Lava/Ash planets are my biggest visual complaint in ES2. Honestly they just need a complete overhaul, which I've been looking into.

No, Im serious. Look closely the vanilla planets is ugly. The first ES have better textures.

@minurominerwin Basically unplayable without... HA!

@Nasarog Thanks!

Nice looking lava.

Truly necesary

@Elchardus Thanks yo!

Niiice, awesome work mate.

@Elladel, if I do another mod like this, I would do total re-skins, rather than simply adjusting the color levels. I'd say that's pretty likely, as I still feel like these two planet types are pretty uncompelling. If that goes well, yeah I might look into doing other planet types as well.

@Bucketsmith, HA, thanks. Helped me get my feet wet. There's not a lot of guidance as to how mod code works. Hopefully better things to come.

Thanks for your reply and adding the shots!
Ha, that IS subtle. Good work, anyway. :)

Are you planning on making a series of mods like this, or is this just a one-off practise mod?

Added some before/after shots. Pretty subtle changes. Mostly just trying to learn how modding works, so hopefully there will be some more creative mods to follow. As far as compatibility, I expect it could conflict with any other mods that change planet skins, but otherwise there shouldn't be any issues. I've personally run it with some other mods, without issue. Let me know if you have any further comments!

Could you post comparison pics between vanilla and your work?
How's the compatibility with patches and other mods?