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Zufomec
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Posted: 17th Mar 2004 23:53
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My question to all you Coders is simple, yet somthing which i have been un able to achieve

how do you make those funky space effects?

stuff like nebulars in the distance

and stars that look real, but when it is an actual object within the program, so like a sun at the center of a solar system

images of far off galaxies and all that malarcy

any help would be proper bo
thanks
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Tim Ballisto
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beleive it or not, everything you see in the background of space games are bitmaps. i can email you some of them if you contact me at a*r*c*h*r*[email protected] (remove *)


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Major Payn
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Most of the time all that stuff are just big images. They usually create a large skybox and texture it with the image, if done right it can look seamless. How reall it looks depends on how good an artist you are

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zircher
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I use a high resolution inverted sphere and texture that.

If you mean how the textures are created. There are several solutions available:

1. Steal pictures from NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope. (free)
2. Use Universe. (shareware)
3. Use Starbits. (abandonware?)
4. Use POV Ray with the galaxy.inc file. (free)
5. Use several different plug-ins for Paint Shop Pro or Photo shop. (?)
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Zufomec
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skybox, what is this?

i knew it was bitmaps, its just how do you get them soo good, but this has been answered!

thanks for the help!
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BearCDPOLD
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A skybox is an inverted cube/box object you can make in a 3d modelling program, or just by using MAKE OBJECT CUBE or MAKE OBJECT BOX. It has a negative size value, so that the texture will appear on the inside, and instead of seeing empty blue space, the player will see the texture on your skybox, and it will look like a sky if you do it right.

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Algae Man
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Ah, nebulas. A very nice effect if you know how to do them. It's actually quite simple to create seemingly volumetric clouds and nebulas with just a dozen or so plain objects. All you need to do is have several ghosted plain objects in a cluster, randomly positioned, with nebula textures. If you have them always pointed at the camera using the point object command, the cluster will look like a 3d, volumetric cloud - viewed from any angle. Remember that the nebula textures don't have to be overly complicated. Just paint a coloured blob, add some wisps and smudge and blur it.
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