Using Solaris's textures for dust sprites, I've upgraded galaxy rendering. Now the galaxies are using texture atlas with 8 tiles - 2 for emission sprites (glow) and 6 for absorption sprites (dust). I've also made some optimization, reduced the sprite vertex size twice, so now models of galaxies are almost twice smaller on the disk. However, the galaxy models should be upgraded: reduce dust sprites size, making them more concentrated in the galactic plane, increasing model resolution (i.e. number of dust sprites), and making them follow inner edge of spiral arms, as it can be seen on Hubble's photos.<\/p>\n
Here's the updated Milky Way. Amazing narrow details can be visible (first picture), but unfortunately the skybox makes them blurry (second picture):<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t