fast planet rendering

[Midnight]

Means great, cool, awesome, in Japanese. (I think)

Actually it means Wow! and sometimes what.. lol
I imagine something similar to Americas.. wha? or wha! (maybe)
btw babel fish doesn't even know that


on the other hand those screenshots are AMAZING.

I like the planet through the atmosphere it needs it's own visible corona and the sky needs to be more reflective... but that all depends on the constitution of the particular planets atmosphere now doesn't it.

[Tarzan02]

Today 2 screenshots of a crater on a moon. The generation of the planet surface is completely reworked. Compare with the old screenshot

border of the crater



inside the crater

[Tarzan02]

As promised here you can find some new sreenshot with the nes planet engine (it uses Directx9 and pixel shader 2 for this). During my holidays, i'll work on the actor generation and the management of the mother ship (crew, ressource, etc...)







more screenshots to follow with giant gaz

[BlindSide]

Damn this stuff is really amazing...

I can see you are using 2 textures for your planets, a detail map and a colourmap? Or are those colours from dynamic lighting?

[Tarzan02]

I used a pixel shader to mix 2 textures: 1 texture is the general color of the pixel (exemple io texture) and 1 texture is blending several time:

pixel color= general color + (uv*10) noise texture + (uv*100) noise texture + (uv*1000) noise texture

the coef can be adjust...

I'll post the source of the pixel and vertex shader

[Tarzan02]

shader code

dcl_2d s0
dcl_2d s1
def c0, 50.000000, 500.000000, 2.600000, 10000.000000
dcl t0.xy
dcl t1.xy
dcl v0
texld r3, t0, s0
mul r2.xy, t1, c0.x
mul r0.xy, t1, c0.w
mul r1.xy, t1, c0.y
texld r4, r2, s1
texld r0, r0, s1
texld r1, r1, s1
texld r2, t1, s1
mul r2, r3, r2
mul r2, r4, r2
mul r1, r1, c0.z
mul r0, r0, c0.z
mul r1, r2, r1
mul r0, r1, r0
mul r0, r0, c0.z
mul r0,r0,v0
mov oC0, r0


vertex shader

vs.2.0

dcl_position v0; ; declare position
dcl_normal v1; ; declare normal
dcl_color v2; ; declare color
dcl_texcoord0 v3; ; declare texture coordinate

;definition de la couleur ambiante
;def c19,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0
;def c20,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.0
;def c21,1.0,1.0,1.0,1.0

; transpose and transform position to clip space
m4x4 oPos,v0,c4

;le 200607
; calculate light vector
mov r3,c8
m4x4 r2,r3,c0
; normalize light vector
dp3 r2.w, r2, r2
rsq r2.w, r2.w
mul r2, r2, r2.w

; calculate light color
dp3 r3, v1, r2 ; dp3 with negative light vector
add r3,r3,c20 ;
min r3,r3,c21 ; prendre max 1
lit r5, r3 ; clamp to zero if r3 < 0, r5 has diffuce component in r5.y

mul r5.xyz, r5.y, c9 ; ouput diffuse color
add oD0,r5,c19
mov oT0, v3 ; store texture coordinates
;mul r3,v3,c18
mov oT1,r3

if it can help somebody

more info to come

good night

[BlindSide]

Hey the blending several times is a great idea, I would have never though of that. Thanks

[Tarzan02]

OK hello everybody, today i've resulted a artefact with the ring of the planet: when rendering imposteur and because for that the zbuffer is disabled, the ring appear completly before the planet, now i've cut the ring in 2 parts before and behind => rendering ok

[Tarzan02]

photo taken from a moon with the major body and its rings

[Tarzan02]

the same giant gaz with the ring thru the atmosphere

[BlindSide]

Have you thought about applieing some filtering to the texture? maybe by blurring it by taking 4 samples from around the pixel and averaging it?

[Tarzan02]

High everybody, some screenshots of my first attempt in cloud rendering, a lot of work to do again, rendering with impostor for the far cloud

[Tarzan02]

new screenshot, now the atmosphere from space is function of the star position as you can see on thoose pic (1 week on holiday) see you later. The source will be soon available





comment well come

[Tarzan02]

Hello,

here you can see my motication (a scaled model of the capital ship galactica)

[draxd]

hey tarzan02 check http://www.jongware.com/galaxy1.html it`s source of Elite FFE random star system generator
btw any estimated time to release of your project ?