Detail textures, step 2

Published December 08, 2005
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Things are getting better, i've fixed some artefacts introduced by the detail textures algorithm, and i've added variety to the detail textures.

Still, i'm not happy at all. Of course, the two screenies above are pretty good, but due to the tiling patterns, the quality of the low-orbit views has been greatly reduced. That's a real shame. But i can surely improve many things. I still have to improve the heightfield & noise generation and the rules used to procedurally map the terrain. The lighting is a bit too uniform, too.
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jollyjeffers
Quote:Of course, the two screenies above are pretty good

No sh*t[attention][attention]

I forget if you've mentioned it before, but do you have day/night cycles? If so, make us a movie of a complete cycle. Please [smile]

Jack

December 08, 2005 09:45 AM
Laz
I have a small request for you...

Hook me up to some sort of brain knowledge transfer thing and transfer all your smarts to me. Make me smart too, please. kthxbye.
December 08, 2005 10:34 AM
wackatronic
Very nice! Hope you can release at least part of this as a GDNet resource. Keep up the excellent work!
December 08, 2005 11:49 AM
coderx75
*GASP!!!*

That first shot... WOW! [wow]
December 08, 2005 03:00 PM
Lost
Quote:Original post by Laz
I have a small request for you...

Hook me up to some sort of brain knowledge transfer thing and transfer all your smarts to me. Make me smart too, please. kthxbye.


If you have any left after Laz, I'll take some too. [wink]

It keeps looking better every time you post an update, pretty soon we will not be able to tell the difference between looking out the window or looking at the screen.
December 08, 2005 05:53 PM
Jason Z
Ysaneya, what type of framerates are you getting while running these, and on what hardware? These are pretty nice looking - especially if they are generated on the fly. Good work.
December 08, 2005 06:14 PM
Ysaneya
Quote:I forget if you've mentioned it before, but do you have day/night cycles? If so, make us a movie of a complete cycle.


No, everything is static right now (the planet is not rotating). I'd need to enable back the server to control the planet orbits, but also to implement a few parameters in object space rather than in world space. So i can't show that easily. But it'll surely come in the future.

Quote:Ysaneya, what type of framerates are you getting while running these, and on what hardware? These are pretty nice looking - especially if they are generated on the fly. Good work.


I'm running an Athlon 64 3500+ with an ATI X850 XT. I get around 120 fps on that system in the first shot. The per-frame polycount is around 250,000 triangles.
December 09, 2005 03:14 AM
roel
Great photographs!

..oh, now i see, they are rendered... :)
December 12, 2005 10:54 AM
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