How do you put a Space Background in a Strata 3Dbase 3.0.2 render? I tried by making a quick picture with a bunch of different colored different sized dots on a black background, but when I tried to put it in Strata, it was just a plain black background. Why arn't the stars showing up?

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Background>Vis.>New>Sphereical>Map>Load

Check Scaling and Horizontal/Vertical Reps.

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Yea, but that stretches the picture out so it looks weird.

I actually ended up just placing a flat rectangle shape behind the scene and textured the space picture on. Anyone got a good starscape, all the space pictures I can find are of galaxies and stuff.

Thanks

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(url="http://"http://www.evula.org/ewan/downloads/star_bg.sit")download(/url)

<<instructions>>
1. Make sure
2. Put it in the Basic folder, in the Backgrounds folder, in the Libraries folder, in the Strata 3D folder.
3. Open Strata and the document you want to apply the background in.
4. Go to the Backgroound tab in the Environment pallet (Make sure that the advanced options are visable).
5. Choose stars.sbg (may just be called stars ) in both the Visible and reflect selectors.
6. Render your scene, and adjust the Horizontal/Vertical Reps as Skyfox said.

Hope this helps,
ewan

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Originally posted by Pougan:
**Yea, but that stretches the picture out so it looks weird.

I actually ended up just placing a flat rectangle shape behind the scene and textured the space picture on. Anyone got a good starscape, all the space pictures I can find are of galaxies and stuff.

Thanks

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An easy way of making starfields is go into Photoshop, make a black image, go to Filters > Noise > Add Noise > 11%. Use the paint bucket to add black (make sure the bucket is anti-aliased with a tolerance of 7) and reduce the number of stars in the field. Tada! Instant starfield!

Matrix

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