POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Stars... : Re: Stars... Server Time
2 Aug 2024 08:16:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stars...  
From: Mike Thorn
Date: 23 Nov 2004 17:10:44
Message: <41a3b564$1@news.povray.org>
Rarius wrote:
> Does anyone know of  agood way to produce a background star field? I need to 
> be able to pan and zoom the camera with the stars staying as small as 
> possible...
> 
> Things I've tried:
>     Sky_sphere with a granite texture, but it goes flickery when animated 
> and it doesn't like Antialias!
>     Sky_sphere with a bitmap texture, but it needs a very big bitmap and the 
> "stars" don't resize as the camera zooms
>     A cloud of spheres centered on the camera... This works, but is quite 
> slow to parse
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Look up stars.inc and stars2.inc...they're exactly what you want.

~Mike


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