@Akira, You're high dude, Gallente Space is green

Back after testing and playing with it for quite a while. Besides being gorgeous, this skybox give out the perfect level of darkness where there are shadows. In SE, the skybox is responsible for how dark shadows get, so a pitch black sky (realistic) = pitch black shadows (at surface and space). But this, the darkness is realistic without make your screen completely black. Kudos. Please never change anything on this.

ALSO THIS IS CLEARLY GALLENTE x2 greate work tho o7o7o7o7o7o7o7o7

Imagine if SE had EVE graphics... dang

This is the first skybox... wonder if it still works?

Looks much better now, Jane.
Thnx!

Cool, I will try it, thanks!

JonSadow, that's due to the way the DX11 renderer automatically changes the brightness/contrast of the skybox during play. I've modified a version of this skybox to look a bit better in DX11 mode:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=540223802

Unfortunately there are limits to much difference I can make without destroying all the detail of the skybox.

Looks aweful

Круто, советую, неплохое дополнение в графон XD

Super low resolution

ALSO THIS IS CLEARLY GALLENTE

Everyone loves EVE :3

When you update for DX11, any chance the fog can be removed now, or is that bug still around?

I'd say lable this one as 'works best in Dx9' and then make a second modified copy of it that is labled 'works best in Dx11' and interlink them to eachother so that anyone looking for one can use the one that fits best for them

Okay, I've been testing new versions that work better in DX11. Unfortunately, looking and behaving better in DX11 requires a reduction in brightness.
See examples here [imgur.com]

Should I create a new mod for DX11 and leave this as it is, or make this the DX11 version and add the old skybox as a new mod?

Thanks Natalie.

Squishcat, it's an old beta version of the Contessa II , before I shifted from manned small mining/building ships to smaller drones, the only difference is the removal of walkways from the hangar and changing from 4 connectors to 8. The Contessa II pre-dates the oxygen update so is unpressurised, and has no modules on the assemblers/refineries.
For a more modern ship, look at the Duchessa II .

I beg to differ, i think its still very beautiful even in the super bright confines of Dx11, I've used this particular skybox since you put it up on the workshop, I used the original before that but i liked what you had done with it - and i've checked it out and it still is very beautiful.

Beautiful skybox. I just have one question. Do you have that ship design in the first screenshot uploaded some where? If not, can you upload it? I'm actually interested in seeing what that thing looks like from the inside and out.

I can't take credit for this skybox, I took the texture someone else created and merely uploaded it to Workshop with some slight tweaks to position and lighting.

Unfortunately this texture does not look good in DX11 mode. It doesn't react well at all with whatever method Space Engineers uses to calculate brightness. All shadows are bright, even with lighting and fog values identical to vanilla.

@Stone Cold Jane Austen - Fixed today, your skybox was featured in Ectosage's space engineer's update video on youtube :D

DX11 mode doesn't show custom skyboxes yet. I hope they fix that soon.

@geek3d Thank you so much for your help!! it works now. Just wondering what is the diff between DX11 and DX 9? and why is the DX 11 messed up? just wondering thanks!!
-M

@Minaraho, try turning DX11 off in the graphics settings and restarting your game.

My whole games seems to be acting strangly maybe cuz I just did a hardware upgrade but now the game won't load any skyboxes it will simply always use the vanilla skybox. Any ideas?

Odd. I've just tested it in singleplayer, using the workshop version, and it works fine in DX9 mode. DX11 doesn't work but of course no skyboxes do.

I don't know if it's an issue on my end but since today the mod does not work using DX11.
I tried locally and on my server, with and without other mods,
Still the same bleak black standard skybox.
Using DX9 seems to work.
Are you aware of any issue ?
Thanks

How do yo get it to work m8's
i dont know

Love Caldari space, not as much as Amarr tho

Likewise.
DX9 also has a bug at the moment, where it doesn't read the FogEnabled flag and defaults to on, so I've had to go through all my skyboxes and set the FogMultiplier to a number like 0.000001 and re-publish them.

I WISH Keen would fix the DX11 interface to allow the skyboxes again....

oooooo, got it, thanks

Speed mods change the maximum speed of large and small ships. However, they need to be properly made so they don't interfere with the skybox. There's a nice collection here .

this i probably a dum question but whats a speed mod and where can i get it( im new to the mod stuff )

Still using DX9 until all the bugs are worked out... This is my favorite skybox yet, not too pomp, not too bright, not too dark. The best part is how subtle, yet interesting it is. Really sets the right tone to my worlds and gives a proper vibe. Fantastic work!

Valtros

It would appear that in DX11 mode, environment.sbc isn't being read. Thus when that is fixed, all skyboxes should work again. This is based on what I can find by Googling.

I should be back online and playing SE by Thursday or Friday (still don't have a computer, just got back from overseas), so I will be able to look into it then.

appears that NO skybox works with dx11 :(

I hope this will be made SX 11 compatble as it is one of my favorite mods.

Will this mod be DirectX 11 compatible ?

Ya, I got it, quite buggy though.

DX11 is off by default. It's also new so it has some graphical and performance issues, and mods need to be updated to work with it.

That's weird! I don't see any SE update for me.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Doesn't work any more with DirectX11 :(

Yhis mod actually improved my fps! Thank you :)

@Decim8or: If you want to mod the speed or a skybox you have to mod the "environment.sbc". So its easier and probably more stable then having two mods that may break each other, because both change the same file.

I see skyboxes grouped with speed mods a lot. What relation do the two have?

Very nice!

Shadows have been updated over the last few patches. That may be what you are seeing.