Background of stars in space

[MickeyB]

Just have a bunch of little objects, or a gif background(dome) ?

[princec]

How many stars, and doing what? I'd use GL_POINTS or perhaps sprites if there weren't too many.

Cas

[oNyx]

A skybox looks pretty bad... try using a skysphere... that should look ok-ish.

[MickeyB]

enough stars that move enough to show your ship is moving/turning and maybe some colored gas clouds way off that you can never reach.  Then as you make hyperspace jumps to new sectors the backgrounds are slightly different than before.