The texture of the terrain needs more detail! You could also add some vegetation and 3d clouds. Look into shade-C it supports 3d clouds.

I realy like the look of the sun and how it is bloomed. Do you use HDRR or a simple bloom shader?

Good work!

Wow that is amazing!

@Dark_Samurai: I think the point of intrest here is the sun and the sky, not the terrain

That looks great
But what about some moving clouds?


Are you serious or is it just some strange xmas mood which will be gone in a few days?^^
I remember you writing that you hate gamestudio...

Thanks guys!

To clarify, the terrain is a 15 minute piece of work in my test level, the actual game I'm not allowed to show

D.S - I can't show a shot of the vegetation as I'm using speedtree and they don't allow public screenies, however, I can put about 50k trees in the level with a 30% hit on fps. No HDR rendering yet, I think it would look better with hdr as the sun calcs tend to saturate out (maybe I can put in some sort of exposure in the pixel shader?). There is no post process effect here, it's all atm scattering which produces the halo and bloom effect.

What do you mean by more detail on the terrain textures?

M.S. - Thank you, it always makes me feel good when someone compliments my work.

Slin - Hehe, yeah I started using 3dgs in errr 2004ish. I still had that mindset when I approached it again but now I understand a lot more it's actually pretty sweet Wanna swap scattering for water?

You wait till you see all this in the game, we actually have some very decent and professional looking boned models and buildings. Locoweed (one of the other team members) has been making a lot of progress on gameplay and multiplayer, by the way Loco, you rock! We also have my implementation of A* running in a multi threaded environment, it looks like doing it that way allowed us to do a significant amount of path finding calcs with barely a hit on the frame rate as they are spaced out in 20ms intervals. Oh and another team member wrote a multiplayer dll so our networking is rock solid.


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fantastic work, it remind me a little bit of zelda, but
I think in the 4th pic the sun glow is to strange.
In general it will be look better when you can more regognize the shape the sun.

Gruß Tails

I can live with strange

To be honest you have to seriously play with the parameters for different positions of the sun. I'm probably going to have to interpolate between the rayleigh, mie, phase functions and multipliers for the sun positions. Just a tiny tweak on the G parameter (Mie phase function) and the sun can double/halve in size. The clouds tend to distort the sun a little which is an effect that is growing on me. I added an exponential falloff for the clouds as they merge towards the horizon. This removes some of the strangeness with the sun as it approaches the horizon. Multiple cloud layers with small and different uv animation (scrolling) make the world of difference...

I've been thinking and playing with some volumetric clouds and im not sure the benefit for this game is worth it (RTS game). There are only so many things one can do in the given time frame

Hey, great work-looks a little bit like the ShaderX3 effect

yeah it sucks, i wanted to join the team, but at this point im not in a financial position to work for stock only, and there contracting cash was seriously limited when i was being looked at for joining. unfortunately i had to turn it down, but the project will be amazing.

hey thats looking great, very realistic. Im sure this will look amazing ingame.
Keep up the good work.