Vague Visual Request

Not a bad idea! I think you can do it by editing their .x models! Though since I made planets big in 21st century mod (geez, I need to work on that thing!) that is a great idea which I ought to use - thanks!

All right, open up se5\models\sphereworld.x in a text editor, and (assuming it is actually a text file and not a binary xfile - I haven't checked yet) there should be something that looks a bit like this:

Material SomeMaterialName {
1.000000;1.000000;1.000000;1.000000;;
0.000000;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;
TextureFilename {
"SomeImageFileName.jpg";
}
}

See where there are four floating-point numbers in a row? Those are the RGBA values - red, green, blue, and alpha. The alpha is opacity, so to make the sphereworld translucent, just reduce it somewhat - start with 0.5 and adjust from there!

Hopefully this works, since I'm pretty sure you can have translucent ships in SE5... the planets ought to work the same way!

~~~
Check out the 21st Century Mod!

That was impressive...

Too bad that there's no way to only make it translucent when a ship is within its area...

Otherwise, that looks like a mod I'll want to get

-----
Watch for my mod - codename: Dimensions - coming by Summer, 2007!

Interesting looking Mod

OK, I just checked... looks like the opacity is overridden by having a texture bitmap specified And using a PNG with transparency doesn't seem to work either... I wonder how you make .X models transparent then???

~~~
Check out the 21st Century Mod!