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Elite Killa
September 6th, 2007, 04:02 PM
How do I make the stars twinkle like they do in Halo? (I'm trying to make a custom skybox that is on Earth and takes place at night. WIP may be out soon)

SMASH
September 6th, 2007, 04:06 PM
You could make an animated bitmap to put on planes around your skybox. That's probably the best/only way to to it. Either that or else make the whole sky an animated bitmap and have random ones twinkle.

teh lag
September 6th, 2007, 04:17 PM
How do I make the stars twinkle like they do in Halo? (I'm trying to make a custom skybox that is on Earth and takes place at night. WIP may be out soon)

Look at the shaders in Halo's skybox for exact values and settings - the main idea is that you have a moving mask bitmap overlayed onto your main stars bitmap, which lightens/darkens them as it moves.

Hunter
September 8th, 2007, 11:47 AM
I have watched a tutorial before about this, it told me to animated the planes that you put the stars on, and make the turn around. (you dont animated the plane, you make a frame for the plane and link the plane to the frame.)

Dont know if its a good technique but thats what ive seen.