PA Star Field - Procedurally Generated, Motion Blurred Star Effect

PA Star Field is released! an optimized motion blurred star effect/ skybox replacement.

Get it on the Asset Store​

PAStarField is a combination of procedurally generated meshes and a specialized shader which gives the appearance of real time motion blurred stars, and does it without requiring render to textures or other pro features, and dramatically reduced memory compared to a skybox (although it can look even better in conjunction used in conjunction with a skybox).

Webplayer Demo
(with link to Android demo)​

Features

• Motion blurred stars (without the need for Unity Pro)​
• Multiple camera support (for split screen)​
• Customizable star size, texture, color and blurriness​
• All Unity platforms supported​

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PA Star Field is on the store now! http://u3d.as/content/popup-asylum/pa-star-field
A solution for motion blurred stars fields for 3D space based games.

 

PA Star Field v1.1 is released
http://u3d.as/content/popup-asylum/pa-star-field

Changes:

• Exposed color property (for fading off stars when entering an atmosphere)
• Shader optimization
• Fixed extreme blur when camera is disabled and reenabled

 

Does this work on iOS & Android?

 

Hi @domdav
Sorry for the late reply, it does indeed work on iOS and Android, in fact a downloadable android demo is available at http://popupasylum.co.uk/?page_id=350

 

PA Starfield v1.31 is now on the store!

What's new:
- Procedural/Textureless mode
- Added ability to limit star generation to smaller regions (for domes instead of spheres)
- Added "Twinkle" setting

 

Hi there!

I'm glad you added that "twinkling" feature, it looks great!
I was wondering if we could modify the frequency of the twinkling.

Thanks in advance for all your work and effort.

 

Hi @Andres87, glad your getting good use out of it!
the Twinkle frequency is controlled by the Twinkliness value at the bottom of the inspector, or the public ".twinkliness" float value from script. An example value of 0 will have no Twinkle and 2 would be double the default twinkliness

 

Is there a way to make it work in orthographic camera?
Only one huge star appears in that situation.
Thanks!

 

Hi @nano005, it works in orthographic but requires the orthographic size to be quite large, or the cameras far clipping plane to be adjusted, I'm working on a proper solution now that will be in the next update

 

I'm working on an educational software demo that requires data from a real-world star catalog. I've got the data in a JSON format, which I'd like to just plug into some existing star field renderer as I'm having a hard time coming up with my own that looks half-way decent. Does PA Star Field have a mechanism to input existing xyz data for star field rendering?

 

Hi @abergstr, it can handle CSV importing, designed to support the databases available here, but its done at runtime in Start() and depending on the size of your database it can take a while (>30 seconds)

 

Should have known someone had already done this. My data is from the HYG Database. Awesome! Thanks!