u/Petrundiy2

I've been tinkering with this for the past few months, and I think I've polished it as much as I can. Besides the shader part, there are also geonodes, which are responsible for the distribution of stars and globular clusters. Everything is customizable: the number of galaxy arms, the overall distortion, the absorption line pattern, nebulae, and so on. Everything is procedurally generated; no textures or add-ons are required.

Shader nodes + geometry nodes

Inspired by NGC 6302.

Tutorial here: https://youtu.be/vWE9QUyPPlk

It is a completely procedural (no textures, no addons) spiral galaxy I rendered. There are ~4.7 М of stars (excluding background "stars") and 15 visible globular clusters around.

Seems like I made Hubble image generator right in Blender.
It is a completely procedural (no textures, no addons) spiral galaxy I rendered. There are ~4.7 М of stars (excluding background "stars") and 15 visible globular clusters around.

Created using my procedural galaxy generator for Blender (called SpiralForge)

Realistic stars & globular clusters distribution. Shader nodes + geometry nodes

Procedural SN remnant generator in Blender

~1.8 M stars
Blender, shader nodes + geometry nodes
Realistic stars & globular clusters distribution

Spiral galaxies with realistic stars and globular clusters distribution. Blender, shader nodes + geometry nodes

Volumetrics, shader nodes only, no add-ons

3D volumetrics. Blender