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3 Dimensional Chat / skyspheres and starscapes

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Duffer
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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 23:05
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look a tad pants with the one image - can you use cube mapping to get more detail in there on a sphere? does that slow things down a bit too much with six 256x256 or 128x128 images>? is there a better way to get a beautiful hi(ish) res skysphere or starscape? anyone got any examples? ta,
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DarkSith
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Posted: 15th Aug 2003 13:24
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So you want something space like huh? OK.


This should produce a sphere with a sharp space-like texture. Replace the stars.bmp with your own texture.

Hope this helps (and works...)
Any probs give me a bell. (When will private messaging appear??)

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spooky
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Posted: 15th Aug 2003 15:16
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Try this and strip the bits out you don't need.



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Duffer
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Posted: 19th Aug 2003 21:52
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@ Spooky & DarkSith,

Thanks both. As it happens have tried both sorts of approaches already - problem is the 256x256 texture size limitation... maybe it's me but the starspheres my system knocks out are, frankly, a bit pants... can i use that cube mapping thingy to up the resolution>>>???
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UnderLord
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Duffer go to my site download running2.zip although it is 13 megs but it has a .dba file in it with what i think you want...open it up and look for the skysphere

http://www.freewebs.com/ingamers
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Duffer
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Posted: 19th Aug 2003 23:45
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@ Underlord - thanks - will check it out...
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actarus
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-Thanks both. As it happens have tried both sorts of approaches already - problem is the 256x256 texture size limitation

I use 2048x2048 textures in DBC...

If I've seen it all before,why's this bus taking me back again? @_@
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Duffer
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@actarus,

the question is, which of the two approaches is best in DBPro and is there a better approach.... what about creating several sky spheres in the same location each placing the salient bit of the texture in a different place - is that possible, would it up the res?
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Guyon
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UnderLord,

Why don't you have a screen shot for your games?
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