This is from the AUM 81.
First write this in your while loop of the playership or whatever you want to have the stars created around.
action player_ship()
{
... // whatever
while(1)
{
star_pos.x = my.x - 500 + random(1000);
star_pos.y = my.y - 500 + random(1000);
star_pos.z = 0;
effect(starfield, 1, star_pos.x, nullvector);
wait(1);
}
}
And add following functions to your script.
function starfield(PARTICLE *p)
{
p.alpha = 5 + random(50);
p.bmap = star_tga;
p.size = 2 + random(1); // generate stars with random sizes
p.flags |= (BRIGHT | TRANSLUCENT);
p.event = fade_stars;
}
function fade_stars(PARTICLE *p)
{
p.alpha -= 0.5 * time_step; // fade out the stars
if (p.alpha < 0)
{
p.lifespan = 0;
}
}
Now particles are created around the player. You can set the range of the particles also in the depth.
Just change star_pos.x, star_pos.y and star_pos.z to your wishes.
Dont forget if you want to chang the value random always needs the half of itself. Otherwise the stars would be more on one side than another.
Example:
500 + random(1000) // I want to increase the radius
2500 + random(5000) // Hell yeah! Thats some good radius!
Greets
