how to make a star

[Master chief]

simple and short trying to sprush up a black background with some stars that hopefully wont take 5 mins each to render

[robcat2075]

a bitmap with stars painted on it, used as a background rotoscope won't take much rendertime.

 

Long ago someone modeled a star sphere that modeled the points of light with tiny patches so the camera could turn to any angle.

 

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=67493

 

but the link is dead. maybe someone has the file.

[Julian]

I made a revised version of the star sphere a couple of years later in this topic:

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23594