Advice on how to achieve this "world in a cube" look

You can make an inner cube with normals pointing inwards, and put a simple texture cube shader on it like this

( The power node is only because you couldn’t see the stars well ). And put another everyday cube around that with the glass/plastic material

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You would need to make the outer cube material more carefully than that. The edges need that ‘intersecting plastic’ look, which is a bit like edge wear. But this is the basic concept.

You can make the edge wear procedurally, so I then copied this edge detection shader ( that only works for cubes )

to make the edge pop :slight_smile:

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