I got a 3D TV and now working on various steroscopic modes. First two are for passive (polarization) displays, verical and horizontal anamorphic stereopairs. You must switch you TV to 3D mode to be able to see these images:BTW, this first image shows a problem...
Implemented offset frustums. Now eye convergence and sense of scale are perfect. GUI is more or less usable with simple scaling, although some GUI windows did not fit the field of view and must be scrolled....
This is a sort of a fractal, generated directly at the rendering stage. Star corona is rendered as three orthogonal planes, passed through the center of a star, as in the previous version. But now they are use procedural noise to texture the planes, instead...
I started working on Oculus Rift support. Above is a simple stereoscopic render, without distortion shader, but it looks great.The engine renders two separate frames very well, without any specific optimizations FPS drop is about 15-20%. A lot of work required on GUI - all...
New landform - something that looks like rivers. I call them pseudo rivers. Of course this is not a real rivers, i.e. they don't flow from highland to the sea, they have no inflows etc. River nets sometimes look strange - like blood vessels, and...
Updated warp bubble effect. The space-time is compressed in front of the ship (blackhole-like metrics) and expanded after the ship (whitehole-like metrics). The ship itself stays inside the bubble in the flat space-time....
Small update of the water. Specular spot have a size according to size of a light source:And surface now have a small animated normal noise:Water surface opacity is calculated using Fresnel equation, underwater volume have an exponential fog:Reflections, refractions, caustics, and 3D waves are will...
Updated controls settings menu. It now have mouse axis binds and sensitivity, and independent settings for free camera (planetarium), ship in atmosphere and ship in space controls. So now you can, for example for atmospheric flight mode, invert mouse Y axis and set X axis...
Small but important bugfix: cyclones on gas giants are returned!And new update today, again with moons and rings. Inner moons now makes gaps in rings:And this gas giant have a pack of moons which orbits are very close to each other, so they make a...
I implemented something like debris asteroid belt around a planet. Nothing new in the engine, just few hundreds of asteroids orbiting a planet. Brute force implementation killed FPS immediately, so I made many optimizations: reduce size of asteroids to a few kilometers (so only few...