Shiny blue marble

[shadmar]

Specular reflection... maybe too much. And how to mask the land off? 

[Loki999]

Yeah, definitely too much. Looks like a marble. Loving your work though.

[Geraldine]

Y'know shadmar, looking at that picture you posted of Earth, that bright spot looks like either a asteroid strike or a massive nuke going off! :girlcrazy:Please, please keep experimenting shadmar, I love what your doing too. :girlsmile:

[nevilclavain]

"And how to mask the land off?" I made that with multipass rendering (3 layouts) on a texture , then I map this texture on my planet in a final step step 1 (ocean layout) : drawing ocean (simple blue) on the planet texturestep 2 (halo layout) : drawing the specular halo over the ocean of the previous step - dont forget to enable alpha blending at this stepstep 3 (lands layout) : drawing the planet's lands over the ocean and halo of the previous step, with 0 color for oceans; 0 is the transparency color-key for the shader used on this pass finaly, map the generated texture on your planet meshe PS : As I am quite unfamiliar with Pioneer's architecture, I dont know how much this tip is compliant with the renderer, 'just givin my general approach to solve this problematic :biggrin:

[Marcel]

I thought I'd add another pat on the back. The stuff you've been posting are things I've been hoping for!

[shadmar]

Ohh we should have nukes Geraldine  Thx Nevil, Pioneer uses vertexcolors for just about everything. But using masking I came up with this for specular ocean reflection :(also improved the atmosphere so it doesn't look like everything is covered by thick blue fog.)

[Brianetta]

(also improved the atmosphere so it doesn't look like everything is covered by thick blue fog.)But right now, everything is covered by thick blue fog. That's literally what makes Pioneer-Earth's sky blue. (:

[shadmar]

Yes, but you can tweak it without breaking it, so the landscape is more clear through normal to the eyevector. In geospsphere_terrain.frag : change : fogFactor = 1.0 / exp(ldprod); to : fogFactor = clamp(2.0 / exp(ldprod),0.0,1.0);

[shadmar]

Some more shot and work on atmosphere shaders.

[Geraldine]

Awesome pictures Shadmar, I only wish I could put them on ModDB!! :girlwah: Maybe a future Alpha? I do hope so!

[baobobafet]

That looks really awesome, perhaps an additional texture of a wispy cloud layer(or procedural) that can dumb down the crispness and clarity somewhat in certain areas of the globe. Using a bit more cloud can obscure surface detail that could cut down on render time.Brilliant work! :fan: