I can't remember if it was posted here or elsewhere at one time. But has anyone used Primivol to make a nebula? Or is there another way using what Carrara 4 already has?

You can really do some cool Nebula effects with primvol by changing the color variation and core density also add noise in the effects area at high levels. Just experiment with brightness contrast and all the features. Thats how I figured it out. I'm posting a Jpeg for you to see.

Ok. I'm starting to learn more that adding noise makes a world of difference. Your nebula looks like it could be ginormic in size because of that one small touch added to it. Thank you.

drroooool Me wants Primivol, now...

Turorial! Tutorial! =^D

Needs some starbright;)

I've taken images of nebula (actually hand paintings) and done some conversion on them in Paint Shop Pro to isolate them (i.e., made everthing transparent except the nebula). Then I've dropped that image onto a single plane and also mixed the image with a value in the transparency channel. Then, with a simple star map (white dots on black) mapped into the background of the scene, I can "hang" the nebula anywhere and then shoot footage in the "space set". The final result is relatively cheap render time wise and you can shoot at any angle etc. You could casually do this with the image you've posted. -Kix

Here's another image from my space environment set. You can see the same nebula "flipboard" hanging in the background. This environment has a lot of space stuff in it and I simply delete the stuff I don't want when building a scene. Makes it easy. -Kix

Alkart, your pic had me playing with the pimivol demo all night.... Had to buy it this morning! Here's a supernova.