hello, would you consider doing a compatability update for Vanilla Expanded: Hero Backgrounds. That would be pretty neat

Does this work with Combat Extended?

does this now have an Anomoly animated background now?

One of my favourite visuals-only mods. Hope you can add the other DLCs at some point! Thanks for the great mod. :)

the biotech backround would be pretty cool to see animated

Part of me is afraid to use this for loading game time......but another part of me is like a child in a candy shop going WOW to the amazing beauty of this.

Apparently Opus codec got added to windows 10 with version 1903. Eh, whatevs. I rerendered the vid without exporting audio. Let me know if error persists after update.

Windows 10

Interesting. Ill remove the unnecessary audio codec in that vid. What operating system are you on? Just curious.

Error: Unsupported codec 'OPUS' found in audio track 0 of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\2827796026\Videos\Extra\Starfield\DABStarfield.webm

Found this in the log
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/9785e3f4da731314964b9c0dee5939e5

@Tory, no worries! Love the animated backgrounds, it's a nice change from the same few static images, i just hate my laptop sounding like a jet engine lol, keep up the awesome work homie!

<3

@XxHyde840xX
I kept it 4k this time because the file size was surprisingly small. Its way more efficient than all the other videos actually despite being twice as long and significantly higher resolution, being that most of the video was still with fewer colors I guess. The bitrate of this new video is actually a lot lower than the Royalty one.

Added a new 4k Starfield themed background

uploading it with a 4k version in a separate mod could help with that.

Yeah I'm considering doing shorter looped vids and have them upscaled. I'm mainly concerned about file size. Being limited to VP8 webm encoding is a challenge when it comes to file size.

Could you possibly upscale the background? It looks extremely blurry on 2k and 4k monitors

@Tory Looking forward for the other DLC :D

@Tory [author]
Would you consider a version of this background withOUT the movement of moons in the background? I love how it was animated... except for the moons. It's just way too distracting to me. (Also, I find moons which move that quickly through the sky to be immersion breaking due to how unrealistic it looks.)

man, this is super cool to look at! would you consider doing ideology's bg? that one's my personal favorite

Added animated Core background. Slightly work in progress, considering adding more to it/fixing some things. Will add animated storytellers to it next.

stellaris called, they want their animator back

this is great thank you so much!

*mortal kombat announcer voice* LEGALITIES

Scratch that. Royalty is required to use the Royalty background.

Mod is updated enforcing that change, RimThemes support is dropped, I may make a mod for RimThemes sometime later that does not include DLC specific content.

@Jdalt40: Yeah I think I will drop RimThemes at least for this particular mod. I may still upload a RimThemes specific version because it does still allow you to get a background from another theme albeit a super jank way of randomly cycling through them. And there are still some die hard anti VE people out there.

@Stack O' Pancakes!: It does not require Royalty. Just one of the two mods mentioned in description.

Does this mod require Royalty or can it use the background just fine if I don't have it?

The alternative would be to just scrap RimThemes and just make VBE the required mod

The reason being that VBE and RimThemes work perfectly fine together, and the lacking ability to mix themes (have a specific background and another specific in game theme) with RimThemes places it at a significant disadvantage (it's either having this background or having the theme that gives you the UI you like with RimThemes).

From my perspective, the sacrifice of having a few config errors which are harmless and having to download VBE is better than the sacrifice of choosing between your favourite theme for UI and this background with no ability to mix n match themes (which is amazing btw!)

Nice mod!
Splitting it seems like a good idea, and then you can also set dependencies so people don't forget to subscribe to the other mod.

I'm considering splitting this into two separate mods, one for RimThemes and one for VBE. It will cut the mod's size in half if I do so.

interesting mod files size will be the limitter, and sometimes moving pics on the menu rimworld sometimes slows down but thats mostly because of larger modlists

Yeah, I'm trying to limit each background to around 10 MBs or less. They would take up way to much space otherwise. I could get this much sharper and take up less space if Rimworld used a version of unity that supported vp9 codec for webm.

dude, this looks awesome! although it has a bit of a lower quality than the still image. I think making it with more pixels would make it too big in file size?

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