 | | | making stars with particles | making stars with particles 2003-11-21 - By Niall Flinn
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I'd generate your stars with frozen hardware particles - lots of point ones,
and a variety of sprites for different colours and suchlike. Do the glow in
post - much more controllable and utterly flicker free.
N
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:32:58 -0800 (PST)
Elvira Pinkhas <elvirick@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a shot flying in space. For stars, I am using a software render cloud
type partticle with glow and incandescence turned on. However, the stars
flicker throughout the animation.
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
>
> Is there a better way to do stars? I tried to use hardware particles but I
can't get any glow effects. The glow attribute doesn't do anything for harware
particles. The incandescence is also not giving much glow, it's just making
them whiter.
>
> If anyone can answer my question or has any advice on making stars w/
particles (i think lights might be too expensive), I would greatly appreciate
it.
>
> Thanks.
> Elvira
>
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