Tom Vanderpoel wrote:
>The galaxy include file is working very well.  I'm still experimenting with
>it though.  I want to use this animation in a video I'm creating using a
>digital (DV) camcorder and editing on the computer.  Some tests I've done
>still flicker a little bit during the camera move and the overall effect has
>a cheap, cartoonish, 'video' look to it when viewed on TV.  The stars look
>great on the computer, but look like big ugly white dots on TV.

Some flicker may be unavoidable if the resolution of the animation is too
low - each star object (sphere, or whatever) may cover too few pixels to be
sampled properly, but making the star objects too big obviously produces
stars that don't look like points anymore. You might want to experiment with
the star object size. Anti-aliasing will improve the situation
because of the increased sampling across the star, but a good solution
would be to increase the animation resolution (I guess that this not
possible with a made-for-TV animation!).

The white-dots problem; I suspect that this may be a result of using spheres
as the star objects. You could try replacing them with onion-textured
transparent discs, for one example. Each disc would have a smoother
drop-off to the background than a "sharp-edged" sphere.


Tom York

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