I use a sphere as background object with an image. The image contains stars (or better: white pixels ;-) and has a size of 1024x512. This size prevents the image from being scaled before it is used as texture. But nevertheless the stars are blurred and not as sharp as they should be for a night sky.
Its very simple; use a skybox. Six or 5 images are needed, but it looks great also for daytime. But be sure to keep the entire box within a radius of 1 from the origin or it will be clipped.
About the sharpness, set magfilter to POINT not LINEAR.
Using a bigger image with a size of 2048x1024 points did not help, here the image isn't displayed (it seems to be too big).
Maybe it was displayed, the stars was just so small that they did not colour any pixel on your screen white.
---------------------------------------------- Nikolai V. Christensen, Computer Engineer, Simulation and Training department IFAD, Forskerparken 10A, DK-5230 Odense M Denmark, EU Phone: +45 63 15 71 31 Fax: +45 65 93 29 99 WWWeb: http://www.ifad.dk e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------
=========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
