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I was creating a space scene the other day and I needed a 360degree starfield for an animation. Since the background stays stationary when the camera pans. That wasn't a good method. I needed to give the illusion of motion.
So I got to thinking about how that worked and realized that I could make the background white. Then create a huge ball prop and poke holes in it with the granite shader so the white color tricks the eye into looking like stars.
The ball prop is actually the universe I can fly around in.

Seems to work pretty good.
And you can alter the granite setting or even use other shaders to get various types of star shapes.
I put the file in my file locker if you want to try it out.
I think P6 users will have to alter the shader a little for it to work. I've heard the shaders are slightly different in P6.

-ScottA

Thank you.

thanks, sounds interesting.

So, with a little 'outside the box' thinking, you ended up inside the ball? Elegant approach to the problem.

Lol@Nance. Yeah. I was looking for a way for the Universe to revolve around me and I found one. ;-)

Perhaps a simpler solution would be to parent a skydome to the main camera

That way would be just like a background image being used, you can`t animate the background. Space scenes look much better when the stars are not fixed in place.

BTW: I forgot to turn off the shadow casting property on the spaceball prop. It works much better when it's turned off.