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Sharlenwar
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Posted: 6th Feb 2010 01:38
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Yeah, I'm stumped already. I was trying to get a model in my scene looking like a star. Well, has anyone tackled this already? If so just point me in the right direction please!
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darkvee
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Posted: 6th Feb 2010 08:06
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When making stars for a video game we don't make 3d stars.
We make a plane that holds the star texture that we drawed in paint or something.

You can also use a hemisphere that is half of the world, and just texture one big texture of stars on there.

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Sharlenwar
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Posted: 6th Feb 2010 08:10 Edited at: 6th Feb 2010 08:13
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Interesting, because I was looking for a way to create a "sector" so to speak with multiple star systems. Thus I was wondering how to get the stars to have a glow but still have substance. I guess you meant stars as in background stars? I guess I should have told you a bit more of what I'm trying to do.

The far away stars, yes, there will be a sphere that is texture mapped for that. Within that sector there will still be various systems that players will be able to navigate. So those stars in those physical systems.
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darkvee
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I would use arrays for this you can scatter them out in a random position using the planes.

If you want more stars, and you want come clusters.
I would use a 2D array
It's like array(set,stars)
stars = 100
set = 10

So now what we have is 1 set,and it has 100 stars in it.
Think of it like I have one big box that has 100 small boxes in it.

Now we got 10 big boxes, so the stars are like in a group then just scattered.

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