Subject: Re: Sticky Stars
Date: Tue, 31 May 94 15:56:05 
From: djm2@isis.msstate.edu@ra.msstate.edu (Dan Murrell Jr.)

Ed Totman said on May 31 :

> On Mon, 30 May 1994, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
> > Every thing works fine including the lens flare...BUT.....when I move
> > the camera the stars are stuck! (don't pan with the camera)
> >
> You're going to have to create the stars manually as objects.  Imagine
> doesn't pan global stars.
>

The best method I know of creating a really cool starfield, perfect for
panning is to:

1) make a small face, or a 4 pointed, 3 faced object,

2) make a huge, as big as your world allows, sphere with a ton of points,

3) then, mold->replicate the face object using that sphere as your path,
maybe giving a random rotation angle or slight offset or something.  Make a
really high number of copies.  You might also want to deform the sphere a
little bit too if you want.

4) Delete the sphere, and what you have left
is a big sphere-shaped collection of faces, perfect for a starfield.


Does any other package allow you to use an object as a path?

Dan




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