How Do I Make A Skydome?

[blacklight]

Hello,

I have a to make a skydome texture of a starry night. I have seen the images used for this kind of stuff which account for the spherical distortion, but I have no idea where to even begin when it comes to making my own. Any tips?

[l-spiro]

Most of the work is actually done by your shader/game engine.

But of course you will need a model with polygons as a starting point.
Simply make a squashed half-sphere and orient the texture such that the UV