MILKYWAY GALAXY

FIGMENT MILKYWAY GALAXY is a collection of highly detailed textures of our galaxy, as observed from Earth—perfect for 3D animation and VFX.

This photorealistic texture collection contains 7 maps, that can be layered to design the perfect Milky Way galaxy for your 3D or VFX shots. Resolution is extremely high (up to 64K), and all photographic maps are stored as OpenEXR with great dynamic range for tweaking exposure and rendering realistic motion blur. Most of the texture data was sourced from NASA/SVS and edited + refined to be more artist friendly (full credits below). The result is a highly versatile and realistic set of assets, perfect for integrating into your 3D animation or VFX production.

Free sample available here.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• 7 Milky Way galaxy textures: Cloud, Cloud Refined, Stars, Stars Refined, Constellation Stars, Constellation Figures, and Constellation Names
• 8K, 16K, 32K, and 64K resolutions
• Equirectangular (spherical) mapping
• Refined variants are cleaner versions of the texture, with less noise/stars (see examples below)
• Use additive blending to layer Stars, Clouds, or light up your sky with Constellation Stars only
• 64K resolution textures are delivered as 32 UDIM tiles
• Need a 3D model with UDIM UV coordinates? Grab my free UDIM Globe

BONUS

• Photoshop file with editable text layers for constellation names

PRODUCT TRAILER

TUTORIAL 1: Setup with 3ds max + V-Ray

TUTORIAL 2: 64K UDIM Textures in 3ds max + V-Ray

TEXTURE OVERVIEW

EXPOSURE EXAMPLE

LAYER MIXING

ORIGINAL VS REFINED

ALL TEXTURES COMPOSITED

Original Source Data
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Constellation figures based on those developed for the IAU by Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg).

Editing, Refinement and Constellation Star/Name maps by FIGMENT

License agreement
https://figment.dk/legal/license