Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> "Yann Ramin" <atr### [at] atrustrivalieeuorg> wrote in message
> news:39d2d4cd@news.povray.org...
> |
> | Does anyone have suggestions for generating a night sky with stars?  A big
> | spehere with random holes punched through it? :)  I obviously can't use
> | light to illuminate a sky_sphere.
> 
> Easiest thing to do is use the star texture on a sky_sphere, it's in the
> texture.inc file which comes with POV.  In MegaPov there's a post process
> kind too.

Post processing is better, because you don't have problems with
antialiasing, which usualy eats all stars ;-).

> Second easiest would be to use the galaxy.inc from Chris Colefax, or one of
> the others people have done already.  There is one which mimics the true
> stellar sky using Hubble data I believe.
> I can't go looking much now for specific ones but at:
> http://www.btinternet.com/~consty/render/render_f.htm
> go to the Utilities then POV files and there'll be both a link to Chris
> Colefax's site and a 3D Starfield file.
> 
> Bob

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