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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 09:07 | Message # 211 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Can you specify a parameter NormalMap or such for custom planets to call a normal map from a file? This is what I meant, and I thought before that you said it was not implemented.
I don't understand, what do you mean? Unlike Celestia, SE uses bump maps instead of normal maps. Normal maps are used to shade flat surfaces, making it appear as 3D, while it still looks flat. Try to land on a planet in Celestia and you see no 3D mountains, just shadows of them on a flat surface. But SE uses bump (elevation) maps to create a 3D landscape. Normal maps for lighting the landscape are calculated automatically from bump maps, so the lighting is perfect and the landscape is fully 3D. No additional normal maps are needed.
Quote (HarbingerDawn) Do you still have any plan to be able to select units? (ly, °C, °F, _m, etc.)
Of course.
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| Destroyer123 | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 09:59 | Message # 212 |
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| SpaceEngineer, is the uppdate out where do i download it?
"Somewhere something incredibly is wating to be known"
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 10:31 | Message # 213 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Normal maps are used to shade flat surfaces, making it appear as 3D, while it still looks flat. Try to land on a planet in Celestia and you see no 3D mountains, just shadows of them on a flat surface.
Yes, I know that.
Quote (SpaceEngineer) No additional normal maps are needed.
Let me try to explain in the clearest possible way what I want for Normal Map functionality and why I want it.
There are worlds that I want to add into SE, custom worlds of mine, that I have texture files for (instead of using procedural generation). But for some of these worlds, I only have normal maps. No good bump map exists. So if I want to have a nice shaded surface that interacts with the lighting, I need to use the normal map. But I would have to be able to specify the normal map in the catalog file.
Take for example the following world: I have a diff map for it,
and a normal map for it.
NO GOOD BUMP MAP EXISTS.
But I want it to look good in SE; I don't care about terrain, I only care that it looks good from space. In Celestia, you can specify a normal map texture and get the lighting effect (look at the pretty mountains!)
In SE, however, even though it has normal map functionality, you cannot specify it in a catalog file. So I can only use a diff map for this world.
So that I what I mean. To be able to specify a normal map from a texture file to be used on a custom planet, like in Celestia.
Code NormalMap "norm_texture.*"
Even though most people would not use that functionality, I see no reason to exclude it, and I assume that it would not be hard to implement since SE already supports normal maps anyway.
Quote (Destroyer123) SpaceEngineer, is the uppdate out where do i download it?
The next version will not be released until closer to the end of the year, you'll have to wait a bit longer.
All forum users, please read this!
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| Salvo | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 11:54 | Message # 214 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Improved performance (FPS) on planets
Finally 
Quote (HarbingerDawn) The next version will not be released until closer to the end of the year
Hope before the end of world xD
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Edited by Salvo - Thursday, 01.11.2012, 11:55 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 12:02 | Message # 215 |
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| Quote (Salvo) Hope before the end of world
haha SpaceEngineer made the same joke on the Russian forum
All forum users, please read this!
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| n3xt | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 12:50 | Message # 216 |
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Quote Fixed a bug with "suqre shaped stars" when Real Sun Brightness on
Does that mean that the weird square shaped massive stars will become more or less round?
Anyway just check the attachment
I always find this very disturbing. Because they appear to big and square-like when Real Sun Brightness is turned on and yet too small (but round however) when it's turned off...
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| smjjames | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 14:52 | Message # 217 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) ESI (Earth Similarity Index) in the planet's info table
Awesome, makes the search for earthlike planets easier 
Quote (HarbingerDawn) Quote (SpaceEngineer)
ESI (Earth Similarity Index) in the planet's info table
Nice!
Do you still have any plan to be able to select units? (ly, °C, °F, _m, etc.)
Yeah, it'd be nice to be able to know what the light years are rather than parsecs, and the temperature conversion would be great (even though I have a site which I can use to convert the numbers and I already know that the earth is 290k or so).
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| n3xt | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 15:03 | Message # 218 |
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Quote Nice!
Do you still have any plan to be able to select units? (ly, °C, °F, _m, etc.)
Or perhaps an idea to use both as well for example
RS-Blablablablaaah
Type: Blue Ultra Super Dooper Giant 
Distance: 100 pc (326 ly) or... 326 ly (100 pc)
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| Duke | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 17:06 | Message # 219 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) But for some of these worlds, I only have normal maps. No good bump map exists. So if I want to have a nice shaded surface that interacts with the lighting, I need to use the normal map.
You can use ShaderMap (http://shadermap.com/features/) tool to convert maps from one type to another.
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| smjjames | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 17:27 | Message # 220 |
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| Quote (n3xt) HarbingerDawn:
Quote
Nice!
Do you still have any plan to be able to select units? (ly, °C, °F, _m, etc.)
Or perhaps an idea to use both as well for example
Distance: 100 pc (326 ly) or... 326 ly (100 pc) biggrin
Actually, I think you have a good idea there, similarily it could be 290K (62.33 °F) or 62.33 °F (290K) since it'd be cool to have both values, and perhaps have an option whether or not to show the default measurement?
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 18:51 | Message # 221 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) So that I what I mean. To be able to specify a normal map from a texture file to be used on a custom planet, like in Celestia.
Ok, I understand now.
Quote (smjjames) You can use ShaderMap (http://shadermap.com/features/) tool to convert maps from one type to another.
You can't convert normal map to bump map with good quality. Normal map is obtained from bump map by differentiating. So to make back conversion, you should integrate the normal map. But any integration scheme will accumulate errors, that is exaggerated by low accuracy of 8-bit textures. So you will have noticeable gradient on whole bump map, in direction from left to right and from top to bottom.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 19:03 | Message # 222 |
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| I wonder what to do with aurora brightness. As long as SE don't have proper auto exposure, brightness of aurora should be exaggerated to make it visible in night. It's real brightness is comparable or greater than brightness of Milky Way. But Milky Way brightness is exaggerated a bit too. So problem appears at day side of the planet: aurora is too noticeable. I'm speaking of view from space, while viewing from surface aurora's brightness (together and Milky Way, stars and comets) is suppressed be fake day light attenuation effect.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 19:08 | Message # 223 |
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| How does the engine decide what planet(s) get auroras?
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| smjjames | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 19:27 | Message # 224 |
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| Quote (DoctorOfSpace) How does the engine decide what planet(s) get auroras?
I'm curious about this as well.
Quote (SpaceEngineer) I wonder what to do with aurora brightness. As long as SE don't have proper auto exposure, brightness of aurora should be exaggerated to make it visible in night. It's real brightness is comparable or greater than brightness of Milky Way. But Milky Way brightness is exaggerated a bit too. So problem appears at day side of the planet: aurora is too noticeable. I'm speaking of view from space, while viewing from surface aurora's brightness (together and Milky Way, stars and comets) is suppressed be fake day light attenuation effect.
Make it fade when exposed to sunlight?
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| Salvo | Date: Thursday, 01.11.2012, 19:36 | Message # 225 |
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| I ask if could be possible to make that from space it's a bit more blurred, this will make it less noticeable in day side of the planet...
(I founded a very nice forum for game developers: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/)
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Edited by Salvo - Thursday, 01.11.2012, 19:37 |
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