Great stuff guys!
Here's another ship that I wish some more attention to detail was considered - the Freedom class... umm, where are the impulse engines??
As for improving the sharpness of the nebula in mine/kills pack, unfortunately, that's about as good as you're going to get. If you read the Readme in the pack, you'll notice that I decided to make the images at 1024x1024. I could have made them at 2048x2048 but the file size of the images would have been 4 times larger than they are at 1024 and a lot of us out there have systems where 2048 size images would have dramatically slowed down game play. So, I "balanced" the size to make them of good quality, but not the best that they could be.
A rule of thumb for sizing images is that you will retain image quality if you decide to size down, e.g. 1024 to 512, but if if you want to size up (1024 to 2048) the image will become badly pixelated. Unfortunately, I never started with 2048 images so in order to have them at that res, I would have to recreate the whole process from scratch. I am considering doing just that but currently, real life is taking up too much of my time.
The only way to slightly improve on the sharpness is to open the images in Photoshop or some other image editing app and run a sharpness filter on them. The problem with that technique is that it only improves them marginally and if too much sharpness is implemented they start to look grainy.
