little star

This mod replaces the stars with fewer and fewer stars for a more realistic experience

I've been bothered by the number and size of stars in my game, they looked too big and distracting, so I made this texture. Why not share it? This is my first mod release so please be nice

This mod contains my own star textures and edited vanilla constellation textures.

It also adds an optional galaxy texture from the 8K Night Sky - Stars and Galaxies - Cathedral concept, I only edited the alpha channel so the transition between stars and galaxies looks more seamless. You can also use this mod or another galaxy mod of your choice, as long as you overlay the stars and constellation textures with my mod, I just like this edited version and use it in my games myself.

In my screenshot you can see a comparison between the cathedral's night sky + its stars and the cathedral's night sky (edited) + its small stars.

Some star textures will actually change the color of the sky, often making the moon look a little weird because the dark parts of the moon will be darker than the sky. With my star texture, the dark side of the moon is the same color as the sky, just like in vanilla (see my screenshot for comparison)

Technically, My Stars is compatible with everything as long as you cover everything when installing.

1k resolution for stars (just stars, doesn't make any visible difference at larger resolutions) and 8k for galaxies, both using bc7 compression

Screenshots were taken using natural and atmospheric tamriel enb (I don't know how it will look without enb or other enb/weather but you can try)

Recommended mod to enhance the night: AURORA S.E.

Thanks:

-jonnywang13 and the beautiful galaxy cathedral team

-Bethesda of Eternal Games

-my cat for no reason

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i always bothered by the amount and size of the stars in my game, they looks too big and distracting for me, so i made this texture. and why not share it? this is my first mod release so please be nice

This mod contains my own stars texture, and edited vanilla constellation textures.

also added optional galaxy texture from 8K Night Skies - Stars and Galaxies - Cathedral Concept i only edited the alpha channel so the transition between stars and galaxy looks more seamless.  you can also use that mod or other galaxy mod of your choice as long as you overwrite the stars and constellation texture with my mod, i only prefer this edited version and use it in my game myself.

in my screenshots you can see the comparison between cathedral night skies+its stars and cathedral night skies(edited)+small stars.

some star texture mod actually change the sky color, and usually it makes the moon looks a bit weird imo, because the dark part of the moon will looks darker than the sky. with my stars texture, moon's darkside is the same color as the sky, like how it was in vanilla (look at my screenshots for comparison)

technically my stars would be compatible with everything as long as you overwrite everything when installing.

stars resolution is 1k (it's only stars, wouldn't make any visible difference with bigger resolution) and the galaxy is 8k, all uses bc7 compression

screenshots are taken with Natural and atmospheric tamriel enb (i dont know how it would look without enb or other enb/weather but you can try)

recommended mod to enhance night: AURORA S.E.

thanks to:

-jonnywang13 and cathedral team for the beautiful galaxy

-Bethesda for the timeless game

-my cat for no reason