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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: reck on December 23, 2006, 11:54:20 AM

Title: Will we get stars?
Post by: reck on December 23, 2006, 11:54:20 AM
At some point will we get stars for night scenes and also in space?
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: buchvecny on December 23, 2006, 12:15:30 PM
its possible even now, just add multiple light sources and give them low strengh
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: manleystanley on December 23, 2006, 12:28:06 PM
It should be posable to use a back drop. I found it listed in the shaders. You can use the univerce program to make you space back ground. http://www.diardsoftware.com/
I tried it, but crashed TG2 doing something else and never got back to doing it again.
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: reck on December 23, 2006, 12:38:06 PM
I thought about the lightsource idea. But if you want a load of stars in the sky it would take to long. Much better just to click a "add stars" button and then just select the density and colour.
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: old_blaggard on December 23, 2006, 12:41:54 PM
I made an image over at Ashundar that used stars:
http://www.ashundar.com/CPG/displayimage.php?pos=-3528
I did this by going to the background object, viewing its internal network, and then adding an image map shader with a picture of some satellite.  I'm guessing you can plug a Power Fractal in there to get similar results - have high color at white, low color at black, set color offset to about -0.5, and color contrast to about 5.  That should give you a basic starting point.
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: reck on December 23, 2006, 05:44:04 PM
hey ob those stars are really nice, maybe we don't need an add stars button after all if you can effects like that.
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: BPauba on December 23, 2006, 06:34:01 PM
If you guys want me to I can make some starfields in photoshop for you. I am into celestial art so that will not be a problem. Just tell me the size...
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: manleystanley on December 24, 2006, 02:39:53 PM
This is just a quicky example of what you can do with http://www.diardsoftware.com/  . Low render settings are what I hope is causing the fuzzyness.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/manleystanley/Uexam.jpg)
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: 3DGuy on December 24, 2006, 04:08:56 PM
You could always use photoshop :) If you don't have the skills to create stellar stuff you can always get some beautiful stuff from the hubble site like this one (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/14/image/f) for instance. Used that as a background for this:
(http://temp.theglasseye.nl/spaceview.jpg)
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: buchvecny on December 24, 2006, 08:05:24 PM
well Stars are very easy to make in PS i offer my help if u want :D or just Download hameed resource pack
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: StickerSticker on December 26, 2006, 01:08:33 AM
making your own stars and your own stars is something any intermediate PS user could do. There are tons of easy tutorials for it too on deviantart.
Title: Re: Will we get stars?
Post by: manleystanley on December 26, 2006, 08:46:11 AM
 I gave my PS to my young cousin, his broke. I've had a PS2 for a while, but I'm not going to get the PS3. My point is not everyone Has photo shop.  ;)