opticalFX problems

[insaneparadox]

I am creating a general space scene with everything working as i'd expect it too, with a nice sun flare effect producing using an opticalFX light glow. The problem I have though is when I place the entire scene in a sphere the effect no longer works. I want the sphere so that I can have stars in the background which move when the camera pans. Is there away to stop my lens flare disappearing, or a better way to create a star dome?

Thanks in advance,
IP

[aaron_johnson]

i assume you're rendering the camera from inside the sphere...? if the optiFX is from light fog, try scaling up the radius of the sphereShape connected to the OptiFX node. that might not be related to your problem, i'm just making stabs in the dark really....

[insaneparadox]

Thanks for the help, the camera is inside the sphere, as the light it visivle as a point, just doesn't flare, it's not a fog effect, just something added to the light source. In the end I just cheated by rendering the scene twice. Once with the background stars, and one without showing the flares and just switching video streams when neccessary. It could be because I am using PLE edition.

IP