Milkyway rendering

[Verz Veraldi]

I was browsing in this forum when i suddenly found this image http://www.quickfixcomm.fr/Celestia/galactic_center.png . anybody know where to get that awesome milkyway rendering? and from the same topic (viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16031&start=15) i've tried PM-ing Chris where to get that star feature but the forum won't let me. if you have it, can you share it?

[Fenerit]

Look this thread; maybe is what you are searching for: http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14311

[Verz Veraldi]

unfortunately it's not what i was looking for, but it's great anyway. take a look at the image again. the milkyway is made by blobs, not pictures. that's why it's awesome..

[selden]

Verz,

The blobs shown in the picture that you reference are what Celestia normally uses to draw galaxies, including the Milky Way.

Seeing that image on your screen is a matter of tuning the relative brightness of Stars and Galaxies by typing the parentheses ) and ( and the square brackets ] and [ . Make sure you have galaxy rendering enabled, of course.

[Verz Veraldi]

yea i know that of course.. but no matter how i change the milkyway custom template, the shape of the milkyway still don't look the same.. perhaps it uses a different shaders? the picture is from gaux's post in the thread

[t00fri]

yea i know that of course.. but no matter how i change the milkyway custom template, the shape of the milkyway still don't look the same.. perhaps it uses a different shaders? the picture is from gaux's post in the thread

Since I coded Celestia's rendering of all 10 000+ galaxies of the famous revised NGC / IC
catalog (in version 1.4.1), I have also prepared a while ago a short tutorial for setting the display of Celestia's galaxies optimally:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13348

There are plenty of galaxies for practising the best settings

Fridger

PS: As a long-standing design strategy of Celestia we have agreed to model the appearance of the Universe according to its visual appearance (or at best corresponding to the view with a small telescope ) . Hence those colorful vistas of galaxies and nebulae that most add-ons display from long-time photographic exposures are avoided on purpose in the official distribution.

In Celestia.Sci I pursue an extended multi-wavelength approach, as may be seen in some colorful galaxy previews over in our CelestialMatters site.

http://forum.celestialmatters.org/userpix/4_m06_1.jpg
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=366

[Verz Veraldi]

So...... where can i get this celestia.sci? or, it haven't finished yet?