In the past days InfinityAdmin has been working on 'strange attractors' in order to get nice looking nebulae. Like any procedural algorithm, it's easy to code the basics, but hard as hell to find the good parameters so that "it looks good". After a lot of testing of new colors, new algorithms and new variations of existing algorithms the results are starting to look very good. All the nebulae in Infinity are unique and will be fully volumetric.
the next two images are a nebulaes deformed with Perlin noise and rendered from 2 different viewpoints (work-in-progress):
By popular request, here is a 1024x768 screenshot.
We also want to thank the moddb crew for giving us the Visual Delight award, we appreciate it!
is there any chance that any fly-through-nebula video will be released?
Oh wow... this is a first in 3D gaming history, I think.
This man is a genius.
Looks really cool.
But the plural of Nebula is just Nebulae.
Showed that on IRC, and someone said "that would make a good screensaver." It would. Flying through that. :D
i so saw this before it made the news page!
wish i had a real space ship so i could float aimlessly through your universe
So, theoretically, a player could create something similar to that of HW1's 'Garden of Kadesh', setting up bases hidden within the nebula, and destroying all who enter the holy place...
Looks rather like Apophysis fractals :).
oohh pretty :D
Amazing! Excellent.