Nikita Lisitsa

Ha, I'm glad you asked 😅

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Never!

Thank you so much! Yep, it's sped up 16x :) I've tweaked the clouds so that at normal speed their movement is just barely visible but still visible

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

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It's actually marching squares (i.e. 2D, not 3D) :)

Thank you!

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

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Really happy I didn't have to go the "compute true normals via clever vertex indexing & GPU atomics" route tbh

Made the cloud normals smooth based on the noise gradient (which was a bit tricky because the noise → height mapping has infinite derivative on the cloud edge), and now it looks pretty much exactly how I envisioned it! ☁️

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No, just a buncha noise!

A timelapse of a storm forming over an island

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I really like the rolling animation of these clouds though!

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Fixed cloud normals & added cloud shadows. Still contemplating ways to make the normals smooth...

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Clouds wip: basically marching squares producing a 3D mesh. Normals are off for some reason & I definitely need to make them smooth...

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Setting up the stage to procedurally generate cloud meshes on compute shaders

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Thank you! I'm just literally rotating the whole sky, nothing special :)

Nah, the holes are still obviously visible. Also I do want the outlines!

Oh, it's also shaded through shader derivatives to approximate normals. Guess I'll have to do some actual proper mesh generation...

So I had a stupid idea to just draw two giant square grids, one for top and one for bottom of the clouds, sample some noise to compute height & discard non-cloud parts in the shader. Hard to make connected geometry this way :/

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Forgot to post it earlier - made the stars blink a bit for some extra vibes ✨✨✨

(the video is sped up 4x)

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Current clouds implementation state: good enough, ship it
(jk, I just started)

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Sooo do I move on from the sky or do I nerdsnipe myself with clouds? Wrong answers only

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Btw the moon actually has correct moon phases & makes a full cycle in 30 in-game days, which is exactly the length of one season (spring/summer/etc)

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New additions to the night sky: moon and stars! ✨
I think it's the most beautiful sky I've ever made for a game, and it isn't even physically-based 😅

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Here's a simple way to make a star-shaped thing with a single formula:

color = pow(1.0-abs(p.x*p.y), 16.0) * smoothstep(1.0, 0.0, length(p))

(p is in [-1..1])

Thank you!

Anyway, it was just a little rant about selecting cool screenshots, not an actual problem I'm trying to solve :)

Imo it's harder with a camera that can rotate around objects easily than with a typical first/third person camera, like in this video. Also they make the lighting sun a bit higher than the actual sun, but I was talking more about turning it left/right, - height isn't an issue.

That would really break immersion in my case because the camera is so free

The downside of having the sun on the sky is that it's hard to find a camera angle that makes both the sun & the sunset-lit objects nicely visible 😅

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