Rendering a sun.

[NiHal]

Hi,

I am trying to render a sun ( star ) in space. But the results I am getting using a particle system are a bit disapointing.. The sun appears transparent and quite fake - I can make it look slightly more realistic by adding a few hundred particles, but that is not really an option..

Does anyone know a good method to render a sun? I think I am approaching this wrong...

NiHal

[Eli Delventhal]

Get a sun image from Nasa and put it on the screen.

Google Image Search

Images from NASA are royalty free and public domain.

[lhkbob]

To do bright suns well you need to use HDR rendering, or fake it and render a big glow or halo around it so it looks blindingly bright.

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[ra4king]

Get a sun image from Nasa and put it on the screen.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=NASA+images+sun&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1588&bih=934

Images from NASA are royalty free and public domain.

wrong link

[Riven]

He just flipped the HREF and the label. Easy enough.

[Skarion]

Would love to know this as well.

Currently the stars I do are created by a general algorithm of calculating the distance from the center of the star (creating a ball which get darker the farer out you go) and then considering the distance less considerable if near any 90 degrees or 45 degrees * n of circle considering from center.