Hi,
I'm applying the stars to the background object. Not sure where the starmap came from actually, I downloaded it over a year ago, when I started this project, but had to give other things priority now. I think I downloaded it from some tutorial site. I'll try the procedural stars, see how they work out.
The clouds were already 3D, since I wanted to do an animation where I zoom in to the earth, fly over and through the clouds and over the landscape, starting from space. I'm also not using coverage adjust.
I included the tgd. I didn't include the maps, because they are too big to upload.
Thanks