Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Space Updates



For those of you who don't know, a skydome is a sphere that is rendered first always, thus making it seem to be an infinite distance away. This effect is achieved by drawing all other object in front of the dome.


Take a look at the new planet in the Fira System! Tetron! It's basically just a normal mapped sphere. The cloud layer is yet another sphere with a cloud texture. It uses the add method (The darker the color, the more transparent) to make the areas without clouds transparent.
On the day side of the planet, you can observe crappy cloud systems (The cloud sphere just rotates) and a red poluted atmosphere (fog effect).

On the night side, you can watch the stars and the sunset (The fog stops on the night side).





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