Coronas For Stars - Josh?

[Shard]

Hey guys, I'm making a small simulation of a solar system and I'm making a star. I want the star to glow and have a corona but I can't seem to get it right. The corona seems to only stay inside and the star doesn't glow when I'm close to it. And the corona looks really bad up close.

 

Is there some way I can get this same result using lights and lighting effects?

 

Star.h

#pragma once
#include "Body.h"

class Star : public Body
{

public:

TLight starLight;
TCorona starCorona;

Star();
Star(float *mass, float *radius, string* name, TVec3 *pos)
{
	this->mass = (*mass);
	this->radius = (*radius);
	this->name = (*name);

	this->pos = (*pos);

	body = CreateBodySphere(this->radius);
	mesh = CreateSphere(20,body);

	int scale = (this->radius*2);
	ScaleMesh(mesh,Vec3(scale));


	//this->starLight = CreateDirectionalLight(mesh);
	this->starCorona = CreateCorona();

	PaintEntity(starCorona,LoadMaterial("abstract::flare1.mat"));

	SetCoronaRadius(starCorona,this->radius*5,this->radius*5);
	ScaleEntity(starCorona,Vec3(scale));

}
};

[Shard]

So, no one?

 

Is there anything that you've implemented for this Josh?

[Laurens]

I am assuming you wish to have the corona visible when the player is far away from the star (ala E.V.E. Online) in which case I would simply recommend:

 

If DistanceToStar > 1AU

HideStar

 

That way the mesh of the star will no longer be blocking the corona.

 

I wouldn't know about glow though. That probably involves GLSL.

[Shard]

I am assuming you wish to have the corona visible when the player is far away from the star (ala E.V.E. Online) in which case I would simply recommend:

 

If DistanceToStar > 1AU

HideStar

 

That way the mesh of the star will no longer be blocking the corona.

 

I wouldn't know about glow though. That probably involves GLSL.

 

 

Yes, I am trying to do it like Eve Online, where if your looking towards the star from very close, you see the corona and are basically blinded by it and at a distance it looks like a star. I don't want the star hidden, though. The problem that I'm having with it is making the star glow like it does in Eve instead of just the corona generated by Leadwerks.