Fretslayer

Here is what I am doing at the moment.
I am making a ribbon of 1024x100 with little asteroids painted all over it.
I'll then map that onto a long plane and do a 'tile' effect on it so that it makes thousands of asteroids. With an 'Alpha Map' added the ribbon will then go transparent and only the asteroids will be visible.

Because this is a 'long shot' I can be a little 'loose and sloppy' with it where as if it were a close shot I would do a mixture of this and physical rocks (low poly with high def maps) and that would sell the effect.

I'll up load a couple of still shots to show ya.
I just need to remember how to do that darn thumbnail thing. LOL!