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I was just experimenting with the galaxy rendering to see how would M42 nebula look like.
this is what i came out with:


looks pretty good, apart form the color and all,
but if the code would be modified,
we could have nice cloudy models for some custom nebulas
how about that?

This is interesting.


Could you give a download link so we can test it ?

Sure.
here's the png i used
(it's a random m42 photo i found in google, paintshopped.)

Also, you should show the same nebula, as seen from various angles, so we could feel its 3D shape.

here you go
a short animation: (click)

more of a galaxy
the code needs to be modified to support nebulas, (make e'm thicker, not galaxy flat, and colors from the png maybe?)
this is just proof-of-concept-like-thing,
yet looks better than the billboard meshes

Here's how it looks like in the correct place in Orion



pretty good i'm keeping it

here's the code :

here's the model