I need to create a system wall/system background that looks like the surface of a planet. Thing is, I have no idea what tools to use or how to use them. I need help from someone who's done this before.
Ah, let me look that up. There was a nice tutorial on that on the starport, I think. Requires you both a image-editing program like Photoshop to smooth the edges of the "cube" and a modelling program, I guess it was Milkshape in that tutorial. Give me five minutes.
Sadly, this is pretty much the only useful tutorial I found. The other tutorials on Freelancer-related sites are either horribly outdated (pictures are not available anymore) or the tutorials were never finished at all.