Arid Planet

AP · October 13, 2015, 01:35:00 AM

A work in progress. The clouds need some billowy tops here and there, trying to figure that out and that icing on the cake, procedural erosion.

Kadri · October 13, 2015, 01:39:47 AM

Looks like a good start.

AP · October 13, 2015, 05:12:11 AM

Thanks, i'm anticipating eroding it. In the meantime i will fix some other areas.

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 05:31:51 AM

Looks fantastic so far. Maybe some more dramatic lighting to distinguish the clouds from the rest?

AP · October 13, 2015, 05:35:02 AM

Curious, what did you have in mind?

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 05:38:26 AM

In your image the sun seems to be right behind the camera. Full frontal lighting so to speak. If the sun would be a little more on the side you'd get some cloud shadows and it would look even more interesting imho.

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 05:39:27 AM

Btw, are your shadows disabled? There should be some even with the sun behind the camera.

AP · October 13, 2015, 07:51:19 AM

Shadows are there but i will move the sun to have more distinctive shadows.

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 07:52:27 AM

Cool! Looking forward to it.

DocCharly65 · October 13, 2015, 12:13:56 PM

I could wait until the next upload with the moved sun but anyway it looks good !

Daniil · October 13, 2015, 01:44:28 PM

Quote from: Chris on October 13, 2015, 05:12:11 AM
Thanks, i'm anticipating eroding it. In the meantime i will fix some other areas.

Hello Chris,

I'd advise you not to count on procedural erosion shader too much, it isn't so great as one can think. It can be useful, but it isn't handy and very limited in possibilities.
Moreother, currently it even doesn't process infinite area. I'll add the support of much larger areas later.

And another bad thing. Currently it works with a planar projection and cannot be used to process a whole spherical planet. Although low-orbit views can be achieved with it.

Daniil.

Oshyan · October 13, 2015, 02:47:55 PM

Last I tried it did work on a pretty large area Daniil.

But yes, not fully global yet. Still, from a well-chosen orbital view it can provide a still very nice effect IMO.

- Oshyan

AP · October 13, 2015, 06:20:31 PM

Thanks for letting me know about this. I will have to come up with some alternative because i still want to create some type of channel effect along the slopes even if it is some noise and warping tricks. As how to go about that is anyone's guess.

RArcher · October 13, 2015, 06:33:02 PM

Great looking planets.

DocCharly65 · October 14, 2015, 02:54:27 AM

Much better.
...and your work inspired me