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<t>Time for an update. So there has been lots of work done recently on terrain blending and an object pooling system to populate the ground the flora and rocks and what not. The biggest breakthrough by though are the procedural terrain normals! The surface gradient is calculated analytically in the ...

Hey, it's been a while sine I posted anything here. Here's a vid I made this morning. 

Here the planet with the water mesh removed. 

<t>Well, I don't know if there is a simple answer to that. What I am doing seems to produce decent terrain some of which is flat and some mountainous. I have yet to add any terrain features that are not height based though, such as polar caps or deserts. Thats probably be what the two remaining ...

<t>How do you plan to alternate Mountainous area and very flat plains on the planet surface (desertic zone for example) ? This is a problem on which I stumbled on the past Do you mean texturing or terrain topology? The example below uses the vertex color channel to store the terrain height (I use ...

<t>Logarithmic z-buffer. Very cool. The only downside I can see is that it would require I modify every shader to use logarithmic z buffer. no? Today's progress. So I've finally found a combination of noise that produces continents and mountain ranges. It is a combination of noise functions. There ...

<t>I have tested planet sizes up to a radius of 3000 km (earth size) with no problems. Both the atmospheric shaders and planet C-LOD are unaffected by scale. Since it's procedurally generated it's really easy to test various sizes quickly. The way the planets level of detail works makes it so that ...

Today's progress. Updates to atmospheric shader. Objects in orbit visible from the ground are now colour corrected. Atmospheric alpha is correctly smoothed. Ground colour effects dude to atmosphere

<t>Rendering: I am using unity with custom shaders for the rendering effects and my own code base for the planetary quad treesPhysics: The physics system is a combination of physX and my own system to handle large scales and high velocities The game is in many senses a sandbox game. The conquest ...

<r>This project is something I have been planning for the last couple of years. There has been a long build up and many discussion prior to this point about game mechanics and how the tech tree should operate. Over the last few months I have bee able to work out most of the technical details for the ...

Been waiting for this one for years now. Bridge commander is one of my all time favorite games. Can't wait to play this one. Looks out of this world!

This game looks amazing! I especially like the attention to detail on flight systems. Very cool

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There are many things to consider when it comes to a players ship. In a perfect world the answer is all of the above. I'd like to get your impression on how important customization is. All other considerations aside.

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<r>The procedurally generated deck system is really cool man. Same goes for the hard point system. I like where you are going with this. I've always wanted to play a really good space sim where my ship was something I could interact with internally. You would be able to fight for control of your ...

<r> Interesting; and I like the art <E>:cool:</E> Do you plan to continue your development on Unity, or will you switch on an homegrown engine ?How do you manage physics/flight model/collision ? So far Unity is the best option for me. For a couple of reason. 1. I like the scripting system. It's very ...

<r>I just whipped a couple up. Hope you like. It's just video of me messing around in a prototype build but I think it will get the idea across. I used one of Time bandit's stations models in the first vid. <YOUTUBE id="pPysNgLfaLE"><s>[media]</s>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPysNgLfaLE&feature ...

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<t>Hello to all. I came to this place to find some inspiration and boy did I find some! Awesome site. I've been noodling away for the past 6 months on a space sim in the Unity engine. The goals was to make a space sim that was reasonably to scale on the solar system level. I've definitely met that ...