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Solar Prominences and thicker moving clouds
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| werdnaforever | Date: Thursday, 09.02.2012, 02:26 | Message # 1 |
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| Solar Prominences would make a great addition to Space Engine. I know there really aren't any animations in the program, but these would be cool to see if a future version can handle them.
The clouds in Space Engine are really just spheres. It would be cool for a fog effect to be generated in the vicinity of areas with clouds; the rule would be that transparent areas have no fog, and vice versa. The color of the fog = the color of the clouds. I know animated clouds would also be cool but that may be too much for any computer to handle, but maybe someday space engine will have fluid moving clouds.
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| Teto | Date: Thursday, 09.02.2012, 07:57 | Message # 2 |
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| By the way, would it be possible to use cloud of sprites, like nebulae ? That could fake the thickness of clouds, no ?
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Friday, 10.02.2012, 01:16 | Message # 3 |
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| Wait guys! I plan to have realistic animated 3D clouds with global illumination and light scattering, self shadowing, god rays, rain and snow, lightning and thunder, cyclones and tornados... But it is a lot of work. Currently I work on spaceships, physics, navigation, GUI, and procedural galaxies simultaneously, but adding clouds now will delay version 0.96 release till 2013... Because clouds requires rewriting of the engine to a deferred pipeline, adding shadow mapping and adapting the landscape system for animated surfaces, etc.
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| Teto | Date: Friday, 10.02.2012, 10:23 | Message # 4 |
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| OK ! 
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| mustafa2812 | Date: Friday, 10.02.2012, 18:53 | Message # 5 |
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| Yeah Id rather have more frequent releases than that haha. I love space engine!!
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| COL3 | Date: Friday, 06.04.2012, 02:32 | Message # 6 |
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| From what I've seen with beta releases, consistency and regularness is key. But also you can't rush art, and this engine is nothing short of a masterpiece lol.
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| Aaron | Date: Friday, 08.06.2012, 08:30 | Message # 7 |
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| I know you are planning realistic 3d clouds, but I would just like to post a reminder at how significant accurate atmosphere simulation improves the feel of the simulation.
Here's an example of a unity engine atmosphere renderer that looks really nice (you can try a demo too). Rain, fog, and mist are especially interesting.
Here's to hoping you have time, patience and energy to get a better atmospheric renderer in soon!
http://www.nuaj.net/gallery/
Quote (SpaceEngineer) Wait guys! I plan to have realistic animated 3D clouds with global illumination and light scattering, self shadowing, god rays, rain and snow, lightning and thunder, cyclones and tornados... But it is a lot of work. Currently I work on spaceships, physics, navigation, GUI, and procedural galaxies simultaneously, but adding clouds now will delay version 0.96 release till 2013... Because clouds requires rewriting of the engine to a deferred pipeline, adding shadow mapping and adapting the landscape system for animated surfaces, etc. |
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