This mod introduces a realistic Milky Way skybox by overlaying authentic images from ESA Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 to the Vanilla Milky Way—no need for StarfieldCustom.ini edits. The mod also reduces the blue hue and makes the night sky blacker. HDR has not been tested.
Technical notes:
The pinpoint stars in the game are separate from the Milky Way Skybox, which looks like a blue smudge. Without edits to the StarfieldCustom.ini, stars in the modded skybox will look washed out. You’ll also get distracting star trails if your motion blur is still on.
Almost all the stars from the source images have been removed for this mod to avoid the above issues, so it should work out of the box without tinkering with the ini file. I haven’t tried it on a HDR screen.
INSTALLATION:
Download the main file via a mod manager (recommended). Alternatively, manually extract the files to your Data folder (in Documents\My Games\Starfield), or if you have Baka Disable My Games Folder, to your game Data folder (../Steam/steamapps/common/Starfield/Data).
Ensure that you have created the StarfieldCustom.ini file in “Documents\My Games\Starfield\” and input the following:
[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=
Credits:
ZY20042
Downloads
| Name | Format | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Enhanced-Milky-Way-1-0.zip | ZIP | 7.47 MB |
To start download click the filename. To open archive files use one of these programs: WinRAR, 7-Zip, WinZip. Some mod archives may need to be extracted before the mods will work.
