Better Times 5.3

There was a time. A time when innovation and production triumphed and peaked, when things were built and used for a purpose. A time when every scrap of technology wasn't precious. A time when we didn't have to fight and scrape for everything we needed. There was a time, but things happened. And happened, and happened again. Some would say there were many times... different times... better times.

Features:

• Theme primarily inspired by the discontinued Realistic pack
• Corrugated hull, riveted armor, and diamond plate
• New basic systems blocks:
  • Plasma sphere power generators
  • Vintage shields
  • Coily, venty, fiery thrusters
• Electromagnetic rail elements
• "SM" series IC logic
• New computer faces
• Retro cargo
  
• Normal maps
• Specular and emissive maps

... and more!

Note that this is designed as a 256-resolution texture pack; the lower resolutions are simply scaled down, included primarily to support recent game rendering optimizations. You may find 128 acceptable, but using 64 would likely give you a headache.

For best visual results:

• Disable texture compression
• Enable texture mipmap

And enable linear mag filter for blocks in the in-game graphics options.

Forum thread
Better Times

Installation
Unzip and place the "Better Times" folder into StarMade/data/textures/block (next to the "Default" and "Pixel" folders or directories).

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