About saturn's rings

[sanctus]

Is there any possibility to make an addon about the saturn's rings to look like this,take a look at the pictures:

[danielj]

It?s possible,but this kind of rendering is too computer demanding,as you can see at Ran III,in Hroenn,with its asteroid belt that in my configuration (Athlon64 X2 3800,3 GB DDR400 and 8800 GS),I barely get 5 fps.
Regarding Saturn?s rings,I can?t find the 8k ring textures,Now that I have a video card that support 8k rings,clouds and meshes textures,I would like it.Is it worth a while compared to 2k or 4k ring textures?Or you barely see any difference?

[selden]

One could improve performance by defining objects with models which look like many rocks instead of just one. The rocks in a particular Mesh wouldn't move with respect to one another, of course.

[sanctus]

Basically i forgot to say that i took these images from a game called Infinity:The Quest For Earth and it just attracted my attention.
And i would like to share the idea of the rings

Unfortunately,i'm not add-on creator

[danielj]

I play this game,too,sometimes,but I don?t understand why I can get at least 30 fps in the game,but 3 fps,in similar conditions, on Celestia.Isn?t the procedure the same?

[selden]

Daniel,

No, the techniques are quite different.
Celestia does many calculations to ensure that what it displays is accurate. Games fake it. They only have to look reasonable. For example, they don't try to display stars in a 3D universe. Instead, they use a picture of the sky as the background. They don't calculate the orbits of all the rocks in the rings. Instead they show a random selection of fixed objects.