M42 nebula in galaxy rendering

[McWgogs]

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?

[Cham]

This is interesting.


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

[McWgogs]

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

[Cham]

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

[McWgogs]

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

[McWgogs]

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



pretty good i'm keeping it

here's the code :

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Galaxy "M42"
{
        Type        "Irr"
        CustomTemplate    "m42.png"
        RA          05.586166
        Dec       -5.387833
        Distance         1400.3
        Radius              10
        AbsMag            -5
        Axis          [ -0.204464 0.509529 -0.835808]
        Angle          191.414
}



here's the model