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Creating a Starfield?

DekeDeke Posts: 1,635
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Is there a good way to create stars outside a spaceship window?  Maybe a good product? Needs to render with Iray.  Or is this best done with some post process in after effects?

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    If it is just outside the window, you could just use a background image.   It wouldn't have to be an HDR as if you were lighting the scene with it...

  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,635

    Is a background image different than a dome? I have the blue plane and some "star domes" but they just block out in Iray and are black when rendered in Iray.

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    You can put any picture in the diffuse color channel of a plane primitive and use that outside of the window.

  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,635

    Thanks.  That was a big help.  I created a plane primitive. Attached the star dome.jpg image to it. And then I added that texture to the Emissive color chanell.  So with that plane as an Iray Emmisive shade, the stars pop out of teh black background.  

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    yes  Glad it worked for you.

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