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Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
What you see here is the stunning background art of one of the most beautiful sci-fi games. H o m e w o r l d 2 Thanks for reading.
#1 You don’t have any problems with DDS texture compression artifacts.#2 More important from composition perspective: since you can’t get too fine detail (it was said in the tutorial that the base TGA shouldn’t contain too sharp details), the background stays were it should: Chris Correia works on a space game and asked me about the stars in the Homeworld-Backgrounds because they are super-sharp. This entry was posted in Game Art Tricks and tagged Backgrounds, Homeworld 2 on 15.
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