Via Lattea
I have to say that I cracked at this. Nothing personal, it's lingual.
You see... "Lattea" means "bland" or "dull" in Finnish language. Obviously, latte is related to milk in Italic, but the first association to me was the Finnish equivalent, understandably.
Anyway, I'll see what I can manage with GIMP. It might come out good or bad or nothing. Beware.
Oh, and by the way, how could I get rid of retail stars? I mean those that have the crappy motion blur effect. They render differently from nebulae because of my field of view setting, and it looks crap when the stars move behind the nebulae when I turn. Do I have to modify stars.tbl or is there a star location file on which I could overwrite a void vile?
EDIT: I dunno if this should go to Art forum instead, but whatever.
Image link, 4000x2000@2,1 MB JPG file.
The galaxy needs some research to get spot on, but this is a beginning. Toss a star cluster somewhere, some magellan clouds and stuff like that and you're set.
The basic starfield came out nice. I found a nice method to get some colour onto the stars. If you look at them closely, you'll see that some are bluish, some are reddish, some yellow and some plain white.
I'll post further developements into Art section.
