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Well I am at my whits end in trying to get this to look right so i come to you guys the experts...



I think the black hole looks ok but the stream of gas coming off that red giant doesnt...Anyone have good screenshots of something similar or where I could get a good artists rendition of this post it please...

Anyways Ill probably have this one up for grabs sometime next week...

sorry, I don't have any artist impressions handy but here's some basic assumptions about realism (please correct me anyone!)

- any infalling gas will be very hot (ie X-ray hot) near the throat of the hole and will blaze off a very bright, blue-white light. It's the temperature of the gas which gives it its colour - not the source of it. At the moment, with all of it the same colour as the surface of the red giant, it looks as though it's all the same temperature, which it won't be...

Of course the whole spiralling cloud might glow from being ionized by the X-rays further in - like an emission nebula (eg Rosetta?)

either way though the gas innermost to the hole would have to be more pronounced, I would think.

Hi Rassilon,

the Black Hole looks good, i`ve model`d such thing too but i don`nt finished it.
I`ve searched the I-Net for artist impressions for my black hole and here are some Shots.

















I hope this helps.

Rassilon, do you have a link of Tartarus system, so I can download it?

One day I saw the picture above and it was very good to me. Downloading this system will help me a lot of doing my new system.
Please, can you answer me if you have a link so I can download Tartarus system?

Please, I need an answer.

kikinho,

Unfortunately, Ras' has been busy with other projects and his Tartarus Addon isn't finished yet.

Have you looked at his other Addons? One of them might be helpful.

Some of his Addons are available at http://www.shatters.net/~rassilon/ and others are at http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestial/

You know I swore I posted to this...must have timed out or disconnected...Anyways I said before that this has been moved to the Doctor Who Universe 2.0 and will be released when I finish...but not for Celestia unfortunately...it will be solely for DWU2.0....

The major reason I abondoned this addon for Celestia is that I wanted a more 3D approach to this using multiple billboards similar to what Chris uses for galaxies...The gas stream and the swirling whirlpool I will attempt to use a particle system/billboard system to render. Right now Ive started the code for simple nebulas in 3D...Just as soon as I have something to show...make sure everyone visits my forums as its the best place for recent screen shots of the project...

Rassilon,

I have the beta version of DWU2, and it only have the flying mode. When it be finished, it will also have orbital camara movement, like in Celestia?