I guess what you are saying is that eye-candy demands you bend the rules of the real universe, and invent one that has eye-popping displays in view at all times?
Yes, exactly this! Eve was a boring game, but sure was beautiful - and was it realistic? No....
I guess if you're targetting a higher spec machine than something >6 years old it won't be a problem. ;)
Yup, higher definately... but my demo isn't really that demanding apart from VRAM requirements (Yup, DXTC would be nicee...) but peeps can downscale the textures if they are too much to handle. I make them look pretty enough for my purposes, and couldn't care less if it runs well in GeForce 2... But GF3-4 should be quite enough for this and today you'd buy maybe GF6 from the shop if you're "budget limited", so...
Anyways, at last some new shots... planet with starfield and nebula, plus the tiling nebula map and starfield map. Original nebula map is 2K*2K, starfield is like it is below except that I use TGAs and not compressed crap like .jpg :)
