How to make a starsphers ? Please Help Me!
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LancerSolurus wrote:
Custom starsphere/cubesCreate a sphere, box, cylinder etc. in Milkshape…
Cube? Box? I’m not sure about it… I saw cube starsphere somewhere, it looks like you are locked inside an endless box that you can’t exit. Not good for clastrofobian people…
My suggestion: either sphere or cylinder. Not box, because it will look ugly. -
Actually you won’t be able to tell it’s a cube if its done right. I use them extensively in my game engine as well as sphere maps. One reason to use cube maps is the increase in texture definition, sphere maps tend to be blurry.
For exporting, the standard way used for ships…
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LS is right; you can use virtually any shape you want. So long as the mapping/projection is done properly, it’d be impossible to tell the difference.
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I pulled up an existing Srarsphere in HardCMP and added two Hp’s one at the sphere centre and one at 100 units, the 100 unit location is just outside the “surface” of the sphere.
I’ve tried this for two Starspheres and both are around 200 units in diameter, makes you wonder how you fit a 4000 unit planet inside! (TARDIS tech perhaps LOL).
I think the texture is mapped onto a curved spherical surface so the diameter probably isn’t that critical, and as mentioned earlier it doesn’t have to be spherical.
When I played around with them I just used existing Starspheres and changed the Mip images, they’re all based on spheres (except ew06 is a funnel) with cut-outs for additional imaqe panels.
I did find getting the texture correct quite difficult as a poor choice would result in a tiling effect (see the attached image) I think a less distinct texture works better and any specific images would be added to the windows/plaques using UTF. -
Your’re welcome
have you seen this thread?
i hadnt, reading it now, thanks again 
