Realistic Stars

A new Starfield for space flight and night skies. Based on real imagery, you can see the milky way and real constellations in the night sky. The source image is from the European Southern Observatory

An attempt to replicate roughly how it might look from a planetary surface in our neighbourhood (the game star systems are within a relatively small range when looking at a galactic scale their viewpoints are nearly identical. The look I wanted was that only the brighter stars shine but if you look closer there are infinite stars behind.

The source image is 32000x16000 and I prefiltered the image using AI at full res, downscaled in 16bit, adjusted the curves a little and removed the real sun from the paronama then exported to 8 bit textures. There are 8k and 4k versions, keep in mind these are only one texture and they need to be high res because they cover the sky and the whole idea of this mod is crisp looking stars.

The 8k version uses 32MB of vram and the 4K uses 8MB.

Disable FSR or DLSS etc for best results (this might change when they implement DLSS officially). Some have reported it works well will the frame generation mod and the update mentioned blurry textures with upscaling has been fixed so your results may vary. Test without to see if there’s a difference.

If you stay very still you can see them twinkle.

This comparison image was created using version 1_7_33 with DLSS3. 5 set to 50% scale (performance) and 70% sharpness and using the blurry textures upscaling fix as well. 1920x1080 source zoomed to 200% - at 3840x2160 it might look good using performance dlss, I can´t test 4k currently.

Install using a mod manager or extract the data folder to to my documents\my games\starfield\ - or wherever your other texture mods are.

IMPORTANT delete the pipeline.cache file in - Users\       \AppData\Local\Starfield

IMPORTANT set up your starfield ini to work with loose files if you didn´t already

If this isn´t done, the texture won´t update

The affected file from this mod is

Data\Textures\sky\milkyway_color.dds

If you aren´t sure, install this mod later than the others to overwrite. It will only replace the starfield texture on planets and in space..

Uninstall:

Delete the Data\Textures\sky\milkyway_color.dds file.

Delete the pipeline.cache file in - Users\       \AppData\Local\Starfield

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