dash1969 wrote:1.StarWars type starfield for the bg
The only problem here is that the star fields used as backgrounds in the Star Wars films were not realistic. In those films, the stars are too uniform in brightness, colour and distribution. A real star field would have bright stars and dim stars, blue stars and red stars, stars in clusters and stars on their own.
One could try to simulate such a star field, but I feel it is better and easier to simulate a realistic star field. All one has to do then is pick a star and use the starfield as seen from that star as the starfield.
If you feel that an unrealistic Star Wars-style star field is the only way to go, you will need to create your own STar Catalogue (STC) file and use that instead of stars.dat. You could then place about 10,000 stars of uniform brightness uniformly across the sky and then run Celestia. You may need to create your own software to do this, or use a carefully-crafted spreadsheet to create random stars. This will not be easy but it can be done.
