The Hyperlogos

I present to you a visual guide to the planets and stars of Freespace 2. These are screenshots from FRED2 Open 3.6.10 using MediaVP 3.6.8 Zeta with 3.6.9 Final fixes.

Planets

planeta1

planetb

planetc

planetd

planete

planeth

Stars

sunviolet

sunred

sunwhite

sunblue

sungreen

sungold

Methodology: I added all six planets and all six suns to a FRED2 map using a bunch of nifty options1 and then fiddled with the pitch, rotating around and taking screenshots. I then used GIMP to crop them down very rapidly and sloppily. Finally I used pngtopnm and cjpeg2 in order to batch-convert PNGs to JPEGs.3

• 1. My cmdline_fso.cfg: -spec -glow -env -mipmap -2d_poof -noscalevid -missile_lighting -cache_bitmaps -dualscanlines -targetinfo -orbradar -rearm_timer -3dwarp -warp_flash -snd_preload -alpha_env  -spec_exp 16.7 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.9 -spec_tube 1.0 -ambient_factor 50 -ogl_spec 80 -fov 0.675 -img2dds -ship_choice_3d -fps -jpgtga -mod mediavps
• 2. for i in *.png; do pngtopnm "$i" | cjpeg -quality 50 > "`echo $i | sed 's/\.png/.jpg/'`"; done
• 3. I like to save my original screenshots as PNG, and I usually work with PNGs because if you save a JPEG, load it, crop it, and save it again you will lose quality.