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BTAxis:
As of current trunk (r20965) we have a rotating starmap for the 3D geoscape. However, our current texture doesn't look that good. This post is a call of artists to create a new texture. Requirements:

* The texture must be square and the dimensions must be a power of two.
* The texture must seamlessly repeat on itself (obviously)
* The texture must be mostly dark, and the stars shouldn't be too colorful. This is a background starmap, so it shouldn't divert attention away from the globe.
Alternatively, we could use six textures, one for each side of the skybox.

sitters:

--- Quote from: BTAxis on December 20, 2008, 01:59:18 pm ---As of current trunk (r20965) we have a rotating starmap for the 3D geoscape. However, our current texture doesn't look that good. This post is a call of artists to create a new texture. Requirements:

* The texture must be square and the dimensions must be a power of two.
* The texture must seamlessly repeat on itself (obviously)
* The texture must be mostly dark, and the stars shouldn't be too colorful. This is a background starmap, so it shouldn't divert attention away from the globe.
Alternatively, we could use six textures, one for each side of the skybox.

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I render an sky-box.

Willem


Edit here the link :

http://www.md2.sitters-electronics.nl/models/star.rar

Only stars like the sky is on this moment.

Willem

Psawhn:
Sitters, are you able to make a version with the stars only a pixel or two wide? I'm curious to see if that looks better.

I'm actually trying to find a way to reliably make a starmap with pixel-sized stars at any resolution. The problem with using an image is that they don't work well if you zoom in (Which especially makes them problematic for BSG/Firefly-style shakeycam).

DuKe2112:
One very good looking star box would probably be one that is based on a picture of the actual celestial sphere. One very popular is this:

With a slight adjustment in brightness and contrast this looks incredibly good.

The original is 300M big. You might want to ask him if he is willing to donate a version in suitable resolution.
If not one of our textures may be willing to make something that looks simmilar.

sitters:

--- Quote from: Psawhn on December 20, 2008, 08:39:11 pm ---Sitters, are you able to make a version with the stars only a pixel or two wide? I'm curious to see if that looks better.

I'm actually trying to find a way to reliably make a starmap with pixel-sized stars at any resolution. The problem with using an image is that they don't work well if you zoom in (Which especially makes them problematic for BSG/Firefly-style shakeycam).

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Here I have one with small stars. cant be smaller then you going to lose stars

http://www.md2.sitters-electronics.nl/models/star_small.rar

@duke2112  you cant see this when your are close to earth, with your bare eyes.
                 I don't think they like it ( but I can make a skybox ouy of it ).



Willem

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