CompuServe Messages

Joe, Imagine 3.1 (Part of the constant update program) has fixed the non-animatable starfield. However, you are on the right track to creating a better looking starfield. Create a large sphere, make it black in color. Make it BRIGHT. Apply the confetti.itx to it. Give it the two colors to use to interpolate all the different colors…give it a dark grey, and a light grey or white. Read the texture doc for all the parameters in CONFETTI.ITX, and how to control how many "stars" are rendered, and how their size is controlled. Keep in mind, that stars that are too small, when animated will "twinkle". This is an inherent problem that is even noticeable in Star Trek:TNG, and Babylon 5. The effect is reduced with larger resolutions, and larger star sizes. -GreG P.S. The built in star-field generator does not render the stars, so the "twinkling" problem doesn't happen.