here's the background that I have right now. It's not that great but it also only took fifteen minutes to make from scratch with little to go off of.

It doesn't loop:

It looks alright, but metal chao is right.
It needs to loop.

Way too much contrast and brightness on that bg. Also make it more blurry so that it would have a chance to loop better.

I'll make a background image if you like, what is the CC grid size?

Never mind I worked it out, here it is. Already converted to CC palette.



[Edit] Image to show looping.



[Edit] Also a darker version to fit in better with the CC style of background

At first I was like "Why does it need to loop? There's still going to be the fleshyness around it..." but then I realized what you guys were saying and it made sense.
Thanks for the backgrounds capnbubs, I think I'll use the darker one so that it will fit in better when the light is gone. One question though, how did you make those?

-Edit-:
OMG it looks like Cthulhu flesh! Is that were you got it? You took a slice of Great Cthulhu's flesh and scanned it! You're an evil diabolic man capnbubs!

Muahaha, you got me. Cthulhu didn't mind though, we're old friends <_<

[Actually it's procedurally generated, like a fractal image]

Can you translate that to english?

It was created using a program that makes the textures using maths. I can use it to make all sorts of different realistic looking tiling textures.

Try looking up Filter Forge on google.

THOSE ARE ♥♥♥♥ EPIC!
Animate it!

omg
Thats what CC needs! animated backgrounds. that would be hella tight. snow effects and rain and all that shizzle, not to mention creepy moving zerg bunkers

Maybe just some pulsating would do.

Snow and rain will be much more viable using Lua once the next build comes out.

All this talk about rain and animation and light and LAG,


What if all these things just ran independently over the top of CC,
And just used what was going on in the game as vague guidelines on how to function.

Dig?

So just like a watermark over the top sortof thingo.

Well the light couldn't run independently because then it'd be useless and wouldn't create shadows and things.

Setting the snow or rain particle to hitmos and hitbymos 0 would decrease lag as they'd fall off the screen though.
That might work.