How would you go and make a bright star in the sky ?

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I would like to make a bright star FX that shine and that have a big lens flare. I have no idea how to go about it so that it ignores fogs, and project a lens flare ignoring fog as well.

If you have any idea that would help me guide me towards an answer, I’d be eternally grateful!

The other day I was thinking of trying to make some fake stars as small glowing balls of plasma and set them in a configuration so that a big starfield would be made and with movement there would be a parallax scrolling happening making it look like when someone looks out the window of a starship going warp speed in a scifi movie or TV show.

I could probably figure out how to make the plasma ball (star). But don’t have a clue on the lens flare aspect of it.

I have made more cylindrical glowing plasma projectiles before, A sphere shouldn’t be any more difficult.

I will see what I can find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmq4e6vacc

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