Work progress 0.990
Posted: 23 Feb 2019 03:53
Another question about Nebulae: will some nebulae have Wolf-Rayet stars at the center? Like Eta Carinae?
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He says "used for procedural ones" just before those pics. If they were those real nebulae it'd make more sense to separate them from the procedural ones and and tell us "and here are some real nebulae that are now raymarched," but he didn't do that.These look like the Lagoon, Lemon Slice, and veil nebulas, does this mean that SE will have procedural nebulae that look exactly like real nebulae? Why couldn't vlad then just create Raymarched versions of the real nebulae?
I meant to say in my post that sense those are procedural nebulae, that look like some of the real nebulae, then why didn't he use those procedural models for the real nebulae and make more for the rest, but the second part of your post helped to answer that question, so good work! Even though honestly, I don't think that I've ever seen a completely nonsymmetrical nebula, can you give me an example?
I might still try to make my own real raymarced nebulae mods though, even if it's "like trial and error." but anyway, thanks for the examples!Here's some examples in this article I found. Nebulae like the Mystic Mountain, Monkey Head, and the Coalsack are less like spheres or cones and more like big, smudgy smears. These are the kinds of nebulae I think will be the hardest to recreate with raymarching because they have no discernible pattern or shape to them. Recreating them would be like trial and error.
These look nothing like those real nebulae. Except for the second one, which is actually ngc 6826. Its impossible recreating real diffuse nebulae with raymarch, for now.
The first picture, the one that looks like the lagoon nebula, fits this description exactly. "it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core." - Wikipedia. The picture I got is it turned on it's side. The third one that looks like the veil nebula or Cygnus loop, is the one that I can sort of get, but I never said that they looked EXACTLY like them though. And for the lemon slice nebula looking one,
I can see it being ngc 6826, but i'm pretty sure that ngc 6826 is supposed to be green, not blue, but I may be wrong about that. Also, you have to take different angles into account BD, the images could've been showing them ether turned up right, turned to the side, or laying on it's side, etc. But whatever, you can think what you want, but I personally think that these look somewhat close to those three nebulae.
That sounds amazing! Thanks!Wolf-Rayet stars require a new class of nebulas. I plan to update nebula classification for next version, not for 0.990.
Sorry for bugging so many people with that post, next time something like that catches my eye, i'll just keep it to myself. But you created an account just to reply to that? I don't really know how to feel about that. Anyway, the quote thing only works after you've made ten posts, why? I don't know. Also, I forgot that harbinger said that...I made this account just to reply, and I don't know/get this quote thing but if I recall from harbingerdawns stream all the procedural nebula will look different. They are made with certain models like planetary or dusty ones and then randomized procedurally, but Im aware that the omega nebula uses ray-marching also. Forgive me if you've already found your answer to this I just wanted to reply, it was bugging me for a while lol