G'day palaslet,
palaslet wrote:Why the change of color?
I already had a second material setup, so when I hit the "o" key, I could change the planet into a Mars like color scheme utilizing the Color Bias crap I have set up, so then it's easy to setup new planets sharing the same material, so I can have baron desert planets, rocky Arizona desert looking topography and stuff, Lush green forest tundra stuff, Alpine mountains with lush green foothills, all the while, it's just using one common material / shader base, set a couple of parameters and it's completely different.
I'm raving again aren't I ? Sorry
To answer your question, I just used the "o" key to change the material to the Mars colored planet, and made that planet use the new Tangent to world routine, so I could flip between the two versions without changing the camera location and rotation, gives a much more accurate result, rendering the same scene.
LordBaal wrote:Holly cow that was some serious progress right there. Good work mr. palaslet and alex!
Thanks mate, and yes, palaslet is a great help, beautiful reference pictures and even a bit of math (he is proving to be a real asset) and with all those magnificent pictures he's putting up, I want to go visit him over there, I'm a bit of a travel buff.
Hey palaslet, that video is pretty cool, 100 mb for that data set is pretty good, looks pretty detailed and stuff, are the grass and trees voxels as well ?
If that is the case, we are looking at an almost infinite detail type scenario.
As nice as it looks, it wouldn't be practical for what I'm trying to achieve, I'm trying to get similar looking terrain, when I enable my layered destructible terrain routine (still a work in progress, but close) that is. And the foliage, well that's close too, but I'm trying to create this stuff on the fly, not in a huge data store, that isn't where I am at with this thing, and 30fps won't cut it for me, I want this thing running true 3D as well, to really show off the scales this thing can achieve.
Anyway, that's my plan.
Alex