W0RLDBUILDER <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I have an idea for a random starfield but I have no idea how I'm going to pull
> it off. My idea is to start out with a sphere filled with emissive media, then
> scatter hundreds of them around the scene out to a certain distance. The only
> problem is, how am I supposed to place 500 sphere objects randomly using
> rand.inc?

  You don't need rand.inc for that. You can do something like:

#declare Star = /* your star object here */;

#declare Amount = 500;
#declare Seed = seed(0); // Try integer values other than 0 for other
                         // distributions
#declare MinExtent = <-100, -100, -100>;
#declare MaxExtent = <100, 100, 100>; // Modify as desired

#declare Index = 0;
#while(Index < Amount)
  object
  { Star
    #declare RandVector = <rand(Seed), rand(Seed), rand(Seed)>;
    translate MinExtent + (MaxExtent - MinExtent) * RandVector
  }
  #declare Index = Index + 1;
#end

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                                                          - Warp

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