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This nebula could be in Jove space? Seen from Vale of the Silent:

http://oi39.tinypic.com/s43vb7.jpg

How can you say that those stars are beyond the nebula and not between the nebula and you?

because my intellect tells me that is highly unlikely that ALL stars in universe are between nebulaes and me and no one single star beyond nebulaes...

[quote=Jagur Azizora]One concern is that there are a bunch of astronomical features that should really be visible in appropriate places. An example that came up in the Singularity channel was the Ginnungagap, which should really be visible at least from the eastern end of Metropolis (Odebeinn and Erindur). Another that comes to mind is the pulsar that gives Period Basis its name, though I haven't checked there yet..[/quote This is something I vote for. If they're said to be that impressive, we should be able to enjoy their view.
Apart from that... CCP, you made an incredible, impressive work with these new nebulae. No words...

yup it is indeed. ALSO, check out the dronelands, they are ******* sweet now.

I must say. I am quite impressed with the new nebulae.

I took my Prowler on a little trip through the new SiSi. The regions I visited and shot include (in order of my trip): The Citadel, Domain, Kador, Genesis, Essence, Sinq Laison, The Forge, Kor-Azor, Khanid (including on shot of an incursion system), Catch, Providence, Derelik (my balls capitan), Devoid, The Bleak Lands, Heimatar (loved this region...Amamake looks splendid), Molden Heath, Metropolis, Geminate, Vale of the Silent, Etherium Reach, The Kalevela Expanse, Great Wildlands, Tribute, Venal, Lonetrek.

http://imgur.com/a/VDEFl#0

Overall, it was a great trip. I spent yesterday going through the North/West/Southwest regions (from Pure Blind, up to Deklein, back down through Cloud Ring, Fountain, Delve and Querious) but didn't take the time to screenshot. Besides the Cloud Ring surrounding areas, it was a bit more sparse. But the initial trip yesterday from Placid and winding up inside of Cloud Ring with it surrounding me made my jaw drop and compelled me to see (and screenshot) as much as I did.

A few general comments:

(1) Yes, some of the screenshots are dark, but I appreciate that. For starters, the still shots don't capture the way colors move when you look around. Second, I can only imagine how the dark parts of space (0.0) will look during a major fleet fight (involving energy/shield transfer, turret/weapon effects etc), with the incredible backdrop of just a galaxy edge and perhaps a nebula in the distance.

(2) I really wish I had spent more time exploring those weird drone regions. They look fantastic. Well done CCP.

(3) There seem to be four or five type of regions now. Those fully empire (The Forge, Domain, Metropolis), those border empire (The Citadel, Genesis, Devoid), the nulsec/empire border regions (tribute sees jovian and caldari nebulae, etherium reach sees drone and caldari nebulae), and the far out nulsec where you only really see the edge of the galaxy. I like it.

(3) Amamake is perfect. Nailed it. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in Amamake, like tears in rain.

I do have to agree that lonetrek should be toned down a bit. It's so bright I nearly have to wear sunglasses in real life. EIther reducing the overall luminocity or toning the blue to a darker shade should fix the problem, light blue is pretty intense on the eyes when backlit.

Performance:

i don't have a feeling that new nebulas greatly impact my performance. fps monitor shows around 60 fps while looking at the nebulas or away from them.
the only issues i see are around structures and with other ships, which seem to cause very regular "bumps" in FPS graph and impact my permormance way more than on TQ. with 2-3 NPC ships at gates FPS drop down to around 30-40.

On nebula art etc:

generally, i like them and they look pretty amazing. i visited Gallente space, Fountain, Cloud Ring, Outer Ring, Black Rise, Querious, Khanid, Genesis, Citadel, Forge and couple of others in the west and south i forgot the names of.
Verge Vendor and Domain are my favourites thus far.

what i don't like though, is that there is only one background for an entire region. that kind of kills the immersion and enjoyment of traveling for me. right now, when i go through gallente space on TQ, there is a lot of variety and i instantly recognize when i'm close to my home system from how the background looks. this is absolutely not the case with the new backgrounds and i don't like that.

also, with only on background per region there is hardly any feeling of "going through" these cosmic structures/objects. instead the changes are often very sudden and sometimes somewhat illogical.

example: Essence and Placid.

the green nebula of Verge Vendor seems to be bigger in Sinq Laison and even in Everyshore than in Essence, despite Essence being right on the border of Verge Vendor. going from Essence into Verge Vendor causes a very sudden and somewhat unexpected change. ging from Essence to Sinq Laison seems to make the Verge nebula actually bigger

similar with Placid and Black Rise. going to Black rise: boom, huge bright nebula right there, leaving you wondering why you did not see it from Placid despite direct connections.

also, i don't like how you handled Essence at all. it has now become a quite boring region and i would at least expect to see a third of the skybox being filled with the verge nebula(that thing is absolutely amazing ) given the proximity of these both regions.
generally, i would like to see more objects on the skybox, because in most cases you get to see maybe 4 at most and if feels like there is something missing in between.

Very pretty but I hope nobody thinks this eye candy is realistic. To the human eye, space is generally going to be a lot blacker wherever you go.

Quoting from the Hubble website:

"The colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye."

Maybe the next release of EVE can be:

EVE Online: Hubble

There is a graphic error in one of the Genesis-Region nebulas.

Some minor flaw might be, that moving from the western parts of 0.0 to the northern parts also produces are sharp change in graphics. In the Cloud Ring Region you are right inside such a Ring but if you travel from Cloud Ring to Fade the Cloud Ring Nebula cannot be seen anymore, not even from distance and instead the dark grey clouds common through all northern 0.0 regions appear.