Ive heard that the moon was at some point shrunk from Majoras Mask apocalypse to a more reasonable size. but it seems this was partly(wholly?) done by shrinking the moon in the texture. the moon was using a 512x512 texture, but the actual moon only used a small area in the middle, the rest was black, which made the moon very low-res despite it using a fairly large texture.
so what Ive done is I shrunk it in the weather files instead and use a higher res moon that uses up the entire texture area. it looks very crisp! and texture size is unchanged, so theres no performance loss
the second pic is slightly marred by the fact that its a new moon
but it shows the moon size at least..? Ill add some more pictures when I got them!
it comes in widescreen and narrowscreen versions. I discovered the celestial bodies need to be shrunk to 75% of their width to be round in the game on a 16:9 1920x1080 monitor. which means Ill update my very first mod, the improved sun, with a widescreen version soon too
EDIT: added a version with the automatic widescreen detection! the sun can definitely be automatic too, but Ive thrown the original a thousand miles away
but! I dont think its unreasonable to replace that one too, the old one is grainy and very red
so what Ive done is I shrunk it in the weather files instead and use a higher res moon that uses up the entire texture area. it looks very crisp! and texture size is unchanged, so theres no performance loss
the second pic is slightly marred by the fact that its a new moon
but it shows the moon size at least..? Ill add some more pictures when I got them!it comes in widescreen and narrowscreen versions. I discovered the celestial bodies need to be shrunk to 75% of their width to be round in the game on a 16:9 1920x1080 monitor. which means Ill update my very first mod, the improved sun, with a widescreen version soon too
EDIT: added a version with the automatic widescreen detection! the sun can definitely be automatic too, but Ive thrown the original a thousand miles away
but! I dont think its unreasonable to replace that one too, the old one is grainy and very red
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the old sun and moon got narrow and widescreen versions, and you choose type when installing the build mod. if it could be done dynamically, thatd be awesome
Assuming that the moon is indeed still the right size, this is going into the update which I plan to release next week.
but Id not wish that fate on our caribbean moon! the size is luckily super easy to change if it turns out I made it too small 
