More stars in the sky box?

Are there more or brighter stars in the sky box with 1.3?

I'm not sure if I'm just seeing the effects of respawning nearly 7kly closer to the core or if there's been a change in 1.3....

There's more than I remember, but I might be making it up.
 
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Watch it man - that's all the SC trails of the pondlife on their way to Sag A* to kill defenceless explorers :(
 
IIRR there's a buried setting somewhere in the config files which affects the skybox resolution. Perhaps they've tweaked that?
 
Reminds me of the day I had to make a stability roll because I suddenly realized they were probably rendering real systems into the skybox instead of just making them up based on distribution statistics.
Didnt find the advertisement text where they say they were planning to do that until later.
It's amazing what modern-day computers can do when used for other things than emulating real-life weapons for standard FPS games...
 
They increased the base brightness of stars of a certain temperature. I wondered when I saw this in the patch notes if it would only increase the brightness of hotter stars when inside their star system, but the sky box does definitely look more starry. In particular the dimmest little specs are now visible.


it really looks quite a bit more like the night sky on earth in very dark rural area, which is actually about how it would look in space according to astronauts.
 
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