Garrysmod - Animated Spacebox Test

Not everything is so easy with source, for stars to appear good using textures is a bad idea and rotation basically requires animation since the in-built func_rotate will eventually crap out.
In this video the entire skybox (mars, the stars) are one model. Each star is four triangles, which look circular at such an extreme distance.

[@DevonRileyisdead]

Would it save on render load if you replaced each simple tetrahedrons with a single, suspended, flat-ass polygon? If their rotation is static, they might even look like they're twinkling, when they're moving past the camera POV at 90 degrees.

[@KalimandoMalivol]

Potentially, but I was in a hurry to test it. despite how it looks each of the 9000 stars has an identical orientation.

[@DevonRileyisdead]

@@KalimandoMalivol It looks really rad, as is, especially with the right amount of motion blur.
Makes me want a deathmatch game that applies accumulative disorienting effects to a player who is on a kill-streak, to act as a little bit of difficulty rubberbanding.