Irrlicht Engine

Thanks.

A screen of my current project.. a confrontation hand to hand in space?

That looks like an awesome JRPG to be. I'd play that.

I really like the JRPG genre I wish i had enough resources to make a long one. The only real drawback of that screen is DirectX 9c.... i guess it is late to create a game with such technology, but, well, it is a platform still useful

Do it! Procedural generation to the max, and you have yourself a planet to set things into

Then just fly around until you find a spot suitable for a city, etc.

That sounds like Valkirie Profile

/me wrote a planet generator. For something else, but this was nice and fast to do in irr: one hour to do the major features, two hours hunting a bug, and one hour tweaking the colors to look more planet-y.

Almost looks like the best picture of Pluto to-date Great for a few hours work!

Hopefully improved a bit.

The patterns generation sure, but the colors... not the best (imo, anyway), Looks like the noise material of 3DSMAX, which is not bad. Maybe using the colors of a physical map would help to improve the looking?

It's intentionally not earth, it's supposed to be an alien world far, far away

So having water, ice, regular green foliage etc would look out of place.


If you mean too much contrast between the colors, then yes, that part's not that good yet.

not the best combination of colors, but that goes with the tastes of each one

it's preatty awsome for a 4 hours job my planet generator is several month of work time done and still counting.

Mine still only generate gaian planet but for the other it's only a mather of tweaking the noise if there is erosion or not, river etc and then selecting a diferent texture set. I Intend to make the aliens planet give result close to what the scientist belive is possible including the vegeration changing color depending on the type of the star.

how much detail are you generating with it?

Enough for a 2048x2048 screenshot - they're to be backgrounds, shown for the planets you're orbiting. So not much more detail than in the "improved" shot.

Diminishing returns certainly, now it's over 10 hours, yet the improvement over the previous state keeps getting smaller

I finaly fixed my specular reflexion.



A shot from orbit and i finaly decided to add some sliders to play witht the atmospheric constant and it was the best decision i could take i finally found the best constant possible for a gaian planet like earth.



and a repost of my star shader because some could not see it where it was previously posted i have these dots apearing on it i have no idea why

Also a link to the blog post where i posted all the pictures http://granyte.blogspot.ca/2012/10/i-ha ... i-had.html