"Fix" for the warp shaders edge artifact. Method suggested by friend of DoctorOfSpace - mirror tiling. Looks better than current "lines" artifact. Will be fixed completely when I implement enviroment map for warp fields.https://youtu.be/DkEhktTk75o...
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Quickly made feature - planet chart. WIP, still have some bugs. On the screenshot - some binary star system (shot was taken from the side, so the first star looks smaller than the second - this is just because of perspective). One video - chart...
I finally made a thing that I wanted to made since the beginning of SE...
Implemented a week or so ago, but still not finished (you may notice the old stars). Thin (2D) rotating accretion disk around black hole at different exposures:...
Trying to make a better looking stars. This is an adaptation of Chris Laurel's dev Celestia shader. Of course, with the geometry shader based motion blur. Look at full res!View from Solar system at 11m mag limit O.OThis shader is awesome. I still can't believe...
I upgraded the temperature calculation on planets. It now taken into account the internal heat and tidal heating of a nearby objects. So it is possible to find such exotic places like this temperate terra moon orbiting a gas giant that is 93 AU away...
The opposition effect is a sharp increase of brightness of a moon at near-zero phase angles (at opposition):At the surface it looks like the zero phase glare. Here are 2 screenshots with different function parameters:[bafg id="4891"]...
Improved black hole effect rendering. It is now a fullscreen distortion shader, instead of a billboard with distortion shader. This helped to get rid of pixelization visible if you go close to the black hole. It is also now more physically-accurate - it used right...
I made something you are really like - the parametric planet searcher. It is an option for the old star browser: ability to set up a planet/moon parameters filter. Once set up, the searcher will examine each generated planetary system and count the number of...