Spiral Galaxy

Submitted this filter some days ago. strangely it wasn't published so far so today I re-submitted it again, was actually supposed to be an update but as the first version wasn't published I couldn't send an update. So hopefully we will see this one coming through soon. Rendering the stars takes AAAGES but they can be toggled off.

Thanks Betis! The core is glowing quite a bit already though. Check out some galaxy photography, the core isn't usually so oversaturated like on your pic. The core radius, color and bevel width can also be controlled.

About the distorted stars ... yes they are first rendered and then the perspective is distorted together with them. However I only added the stars as some sort of add-on effect and the perspective view is also only for checking how it looks. optimally you want to render the galaxy undistorted (top-down view) and then do the perspective in Photoshop where you have much more flexibility over it. That was my initial purpose for it anyway.

Either way, the stars are quite heavy on the CPU, I still need to optimize that part a little more.

Very Betis..

the bomber is a slow beast. there are lots of ways to make stars much quicker. i dont have my rig right now so cant post any examples or look at how betis did his, but have a look at some of the other star/nebulae filters in the library. they shld help. we were doing starfields in version one long before we had bombers in version 2.

i like your galaxy, btw. i'd suggest a touch of color to your stars, also... at least some.