The details on the planets look amazing, but I'm skeptic of how they will look when zoomed in. They are pretty near, but still out of range, it looks.
Backgrounds are awesome, as usual.
Still no lighting improvement (at least from what I can see). Still look bland (like though they're part of the texture) and don't give off a glow still. A real glow would be nice, as opposed to integrating it with the texture. At least, that's the impression I'm getting. The background lighting in the second picture looks like over-bloom at the bottom; not bad.
So just a question about the beta. When its released, is that the "final" for the grafics? since to me it just looks finished
I hope not; I suspect the graphics department is winding down, but I seriously think you guys can still do some more work.