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Sol 1.7 - developer diary 29.08.2020 (Patreon)

Published:

2020-08-29 09:26:50

Imported:

2021-03

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For Sol 1.7 i rebuild the whole weather creation system. Its now more consistent and uses much less memory.

For this system i also rebuild the fog creation system. It uses 5 fog layers, which are mixed together. This prevents wrong interpolated values, which happend with the old code.

You see the new CSP sky shader v2 in action. Its fully integrated in Sol 1.7 and delivers much better sky colors. I adapted the Cumulus clouds, the other cloud layers will follow.

The new humidity modulator will give very realistic distant views. With more and more humidity, the distant becomes more and more opaque. The terrain and the clouds are disappearing in that fog layer.

The Cumulus clouds have much more structur and are more volumetric. To improve this, Sol 1.7 already uses the new CSP weatherFX function "extra clouds fidelity". This will gain the noise resolution. Noise is used to create those procedural clouds. For example the Cumulus clouds have a raising fidelity with distance. So the distant clouds have much more detail, which results in a more realistic look.

Many things must be done, but its on a good way.....

best regards

Peter

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Sol 1.7 - developer diary 29.08.2020

For Sol 1.7 i rebuild the whole weather creation system. Its now more consistent and uses much less memory. For this system i also rebuild the fog creation system. It uses 5 fog layers, which are mixed together. This prevents wrong interpolated values, which happend with the old code. You see the new CSP sky shader v2 in action. Its fully integrated in Sol 1.7 and delivers much better sky colors. I adapted the Cumulus clouds, the other cloud layers will follow. The new humidity modulator will give very realistic distant views. With more and more humidity, the distant becomes more and more opaque. The terrain and the clouds are disappearing in that fog layer. The Cumulus clouds have much more structur and are more volumetric. To improve this, Sol 1.7 already uses the new CSP weatherFX function "extra clouds fidelity". This will gain the noise resolution. Noise is used to create those procedural clouds. For example the Cumulus clouds have a raising fidelity with distance. So the distant clouds have much more detail, which results in a more realistic look. Many things must be done, but its on a good way..... best regards Peter Music: Dreaming Cooper - Form Bandcamp: https://dreamingcooper.bandcamp.com/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dreamingcooper