Duke experimenting with the PBR - physically-based rendering, combined with IBL - image-based lighting. In order to integrate this in SE, I added support of PBR textures set for ships, ability to specify if the material requires the environment map, and implemented a pre-filtering pass...
I know it was a long time since previous blog post. I've worked really hard past month, sometimes without weekend. A three major topics of my recent work are:- Continued work on a new terrain generation and rendering. - Experimental PBR rendering of the ship models...
This will be a large post, so first I'll dilute the wall of text with a screenshots of new landforms, recently added to the engine. They are based on Rodrigo's mods, so far I added the rivers and rifts (faults) for desert planets. Parameters for...
This is a beginning of work on PBR (Physically-based rendering). SE already generates environment maps for ships - they are used in the warp drive distortion effect shader. But they can be used in the IBL (Image-based-lighting) of ship models. Screenshots below shows simple mirror...
Hi, HarbingerDawn here. I'm a SpaceEngine team volunteer who sometimes makes contributions to SE's code. Today I'll be talking about some of the work I've done for the upcoming version, 0.9.9.0.Atmospheres I have made many changes to how SE chooses atmosphere models and atmosphere hue and...
LifeLive42 made a new video, enjoy!...
I continue to work on the updated terrain engine. Today I will tell you more about detail textures.So far, for texturing the landscape, SE has generated or loaded from disk 4 kinds of textures for each block of terrain (I will call them "maps" for...
The view from 1.5 meters altitudeI recently started upgrading the terrain engine. This is necessary work for the integration of the new planet classification system. The procedural generator uses a special file (palette.cfg) to assign "coloring" (a palette) to the generated planets. For each class...
New features shown: new planet classes, composition of alien seas, new close-up terrain textures (WIP)...
In order to support the new planet classification, SpaceEngine needed code that generates the bulk composition of a planet, as well as its atmosphere and possible liquids on the surface. So I upgraded the atmosphere composition code, which was first introduced in SE 0.980. It...