I need a large 800x600 or 1024x768 .. basically a big screenshot of a very generic starfield shot maybe from SWG Jump to lightspeed or from a SW movie.

 

I need something very clean and large. No nebulas or planets or ships. Tho I can edit stuff out.

 

Anything anyone can provide would really help! Post here or email to:

jon@eleventhirtyone.com

Not star wars, but you really cant go wrong with this:

 

http://aspasia.mm.di.uoa.gr/~rouvas/backgrounds/starfield.gif

If all you want is just a starfield, I could render one in 3d studio max in a matter of minutes at any size you want and modifiy it a little.

Here's a 1024x768 example

Starfield

 

- it's saved as a gif, though can be turned into a jpeg if needed. The size of the stars, the maximum and minium intensity can all be changed.

Krytos, Have you already tried using noise maps for making starfields?

wow, thanks guys.

 

AdmiralToguroAni, I have the image already. Its from a bg pack for SW 3D stuff I think.

 

What I really need is a brighter blueish starfield like in the movies. Tho I can photoshop it but hoping not to have to do that work.

 

Krytos, Can you make the stars a little brighter and resolution to 1024x768 that would be great. I think I'm going to overlay what you did over another one I have.

 

Thanks again guys. This is for the SW:GCW project, if you were wondering.

Kryt try one thing when rerendering.

 

on a new material:

first press "get map" and select a background image.

make it a mix map and color one a noise map

Noise Type: Turbulence

 

Size: 25.0

 

High: 1.0

 

Low: 0.6

 

Levels: 3.0

 

 

 

Color #1: Make it a noise map with these settings:

 

Noise Type: Regular

 

Size: 0.1

 

High: 0.8

 

Low: 0.7

 

Color #1: Black

 

Color #2: White

 

Change the colors a tad to adjust the color of the stars.

And set the material as background then render.

Note: This is from a tutorial i found on the net.

Whoops, forgot about this thrad ever since I got into that debat

 

Tried your tutorial Mad, it coems out with practically the same thing as the video post version (however video post allows proper animations, like turning a camera and having the star field not turn - so it's not a billboard)

But, that's by the by.

 

I wanted to use the video post and have a glow around each star for the coouring but asn't able to get it to work well at all.

So here's a bluer version:

Uncompressed

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/222/starfield027ur.th.jpg

 

Compressed - which adds a sort of glow effect, good 'ol jpeg compression

http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/2699/starfield025oy.th.jpg

 

And a re-render of the original:

http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/3816/starfieldvideopost7sm.th.jpg

 

EDIT:

Figured out how to do the glowing - not looking too hot though. Got any rough pictures I can use for refrence?

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6073/starfieldvideopost025vs.th.jpg

looking good Kryt!

Nice! Thanks alot.