If anyone has any backdrop star texture maps, could they post them, or at least the site that they're found on? I've been working on strata recently, and I made several (failed) attempts at creating starry backgrounds for my models.
My models are also crap, since I'm using Strata Vision 4.0. :frown:
Any thanks would be appreciated!
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These questions go to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number;=9&SUBMIT;=Go")EV Developer's Corner.(/url) There are lots of 3D artists there, and I think someone posted one awhile ago.
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This was a post made by Hudson in the Image gallery a while ago, and It is a very good starscape. I've used it in Strata, and It looks pretty good.
Hope I could be of help.
TheRedeemer
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While the site is incomplete, I have 4 starfield 'presets' under the (url="http://"http://zombat.roosteredge.com/tutes.html")Tutorials Page (/url) (look to the bottom of the page under 'presets')
Eventually, when I finish the gallery sections on the site, I'll once again work on the tutorials.
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A site that I've found to be extremely helpful in terms of universe backdrops and textures is NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab site. You can get probe stitches of most of the planets in the solar system as well as hi-rez photos taken from various telescopes and satellites. If you don't find anything to use yourself, you'll at least see something that inspires you guaranteed.
Be careful, though. Hi-rez can be rather extreme in a few cases with file sizes ballooning to over 50MB for the TIFFs. Go to this page and explore form there.
(url="http://"http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/")http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/(/url)
Have fun!
Solar Soup
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This is the technique I use in Photoshop to make pretty good starfields:
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()Create new document w/ black backround
()Click Filter... Noise... Add Noise
()Choose the "monochromatic" and "gaussian" options
()Set "amount" to about 40
()Click OK
()Click Filter... Sharpen... Sharpen
()Click Image... Adjust... Levels
()Drag the gray slider under the middle of the chart towards the right side, to about three-quarters of the way from left to right
()Click OK
()Right click on the layer marked "Background" in the Layers window
()Click "Duplicate", and click OK on the dialog that appears
()Click on the new copy layer
()Click Image... Adjust... Levels
()Drag the gray slider under the middle of the chart all the way to the right side
()Click OK
()Repeat steps 13-15 three or four times
()Click Select... Color Range
()With "fuzziness" at zero, click the square in the middle
()Click OK
()Press delete
()Click Select... Inverse
()Click Select... Modify... Expand
()Type 1 and click OK
()Click Select... Feather
()Type 1 and click OK
()Click Edit... Fill
()Click the "use" field and select "white"
()Set "opacity" to 100%
()Set "mode" to "normal"
()Make sure "preserve transparency" is unselected
()Click OK
()Click Select... Deselect
()Click the arrow on the top right of the Layers window
()Click "Flatten Image"
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It comes out looking like this:
If you are going for realism, though, you would probably be better off downloading pictures from NASA, as Solar Soup suggested.
-Vaumnou
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(This message has been edited by Vaumnou (edited 07-18-2003).)
