"Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote in message 
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> That scripting would create ambient spheres just on demand. From a distance, 
> the scene contains no sun spheres. But once you scroll to a certain location, 
> the script within starts to create on or a few (ambient?) sun spheres as the 
> camera zooms closer to that location. At the begin, these spheres are just 
> tiny, tiny, tiny. The closer you get, the bigger (in a descent increase) the 
> few spheres get, and the distances between them also increase. Note that, 
> based on the huge distances between real suns, usually only the target sun 
> gets bigger, while the other (few) distant suns remain in a smaller size but 
> move out of the image due the camera viewpoint.
>
With this crackle density for the media I will only need to do the star I am 
zooming into, so that solves a couple of billion problems in one go!

> The creation of the spheres (and their amount) could be triggered by the zoom 
> factor, or let's say, the camera position. The scripting is now up to you. 
> May the POVer be with you, young Jedi!

I now have the POVer of the crackle macro!

...I think.

>
> I think, this way you can have a fast calculating galaxy and on zoom-in also 
> recognizable suns doing their natural part in a universe full of POV 
> creatures...
>

We're definitely thinking along the same lines here. =)


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-Nekar Xenos-
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