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wow, bizarre. never thought of doing that.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=362837

Check it out!

I think that putting image maps on both the ground and the cloud plane would be enough. If you want to create something like the 2001: The Space Odissey end sequence or various "warp drive" sequences. Take Universe Creator, make a starfield with lots of big stars, in as big the resolution as you can. Open the image in Photoshop, apply motion blur with lots of distance. for the direction you probably should put 90 degrees. Put the image map both as Diffusion and Ambience, as well as Transparency Map. Make Bryce's sky black. Raise the Ambient value of the image maps to 100, so you have more light. And that should be it. Of course, since I'm posting this off the top of my head, without Bryce, there might be some bugs, but I think they can be ironed out. Like the maps obviously tiling. You could then check Parametric Scaled and/or Scale Pict Size down on the bottom of the mapping menu.

Attached Link: http://www.diardsoftware.com/universe.htm

Oh..Universe is at the Site above. There's a way to make a jpg into a mat. I've done it once, but haven't been able to duplicate it (actually with Universe, now that I think about it..;) Bryce, for all the good stuff it does, just hasn't got the Mojo (no pun intended) to do stars as believably as it could. Also, there's Celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.htm and Starbits, which I don't seem to have the URL for (do a Google search).

The image map would be nice, but the space between the stars would need to be transparent. I want the stars to rest, visibly, behind the clouds. Bryce animates clouds very nice, I plan to do some work with them. = )

Try this, as in the pic. Total beginners' explanation: Create an enormous sphere. _Enormous_. Center it on the camera/perspective. Make it positive. Dupllicate it. Make the second sphere negative and leave "Transfer material" checked. Now apply a picture of a starry sky to the second sphere. Group the two together. You got your stars. The blue on the bottom is certainly because it's ground plane, and not a cloud plane. Or possibly because I changed the orientation of the texture.

Nice try. Some of the filters mentioned have worked very nicely for stills, but not in animation. The trick here is getting Bryces stars to show in the day, what kind of material are they, why doesn't thier brightness gi this high, gosh yeesh!

Anybody want the file to try?

Bryce's stars will not show during the day. I think it's mentioned in the manual. Of course, any corrections welcome.