Starfield. CCparticle World stop static stars from blinking in and out

Question

Ok, so I'm trying to have a simple 3D starfield in the background of my scene. A ship will come into the scene and possibly dive. So my After Effects camera will slowly follow the dive. So, the stars have to move properly to look realistic. Now, as I mentioned the starfield is already setup. But the stars blink-in and then blink-out, a almost twinkle effect. I just want the twinkle to stop. My only problem. Please help.
CC Particle World. AE CS6

Answer 1

I watched your video in HD and the stars are there but they are way too small. The blinking looks like a problem with life cycle from particle world.
If you're just trying to generate a static star field then I'd make it in Photoshop and import it as a still. If you make two star field layers and scale one then you can create the illustion of flying through space.
Here's the formula for a star field in Photoshop.
New Image transparent background RGB that's about half the size of your composition
Pick something like red and yellow for your foreground and background colors
Select Filter>Render Clouds
Select Filter>Noise>Add Noise 25% and Uniform and Monochrome
Add an adjustment layer above with threshold applied
Set your foreground and background layers to black and white
Add another layer above your Adjustment Layer and select Filter>Render>Render Clouds
Set the top layer's blend mode to Multiply
Adjust the Threshold value to build your star field
Adjust the opacity of the top Clouds layer to contrl the look.
Once you've got the star field you want then save the PSD as a PNG or JPG to flatten the image.
Open up the saved flattened star field and scale it up 250% with Bicubic Smoother selected. There's your star field... EZ as pie. The stars are big enough not to cause interlacing or flickering problems, and your comp will render quickly.
You could also bring the PSD file into AE as a comp and scale that up 250%
You could also overlay colors and add multiple layers blurred copies of the star field layer to give the stars a nice glow.
The biggest part of this trick is scaling up the PSD file to make the stars big enough to not cause problems.