I tried out a destroyer, designed to hunt fighters. Managed to defeat 4 fighters and an enemy destroyer before something hit me from behind setting fires all along my ship. I escaped just for a bit of emergency repair. The shader dents your ship and makes bits glow when damaged.
24.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DeepestBlue testing all day. Went to a system I had never been to. 1 sector was close to a giant star that was so big it dazzled the whole screen and gave my plot routine problems. Added a maximum display size.
24.07.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DeepestBlue map screen lets you see what is in known sectors. You can zoom out to system level or galaxy level, You can use it to set a destination for the current ship.
12.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DeepestBlue Here is an example of an in game nebula. It has a couple of layers that swirl slowly. The shader picks off RGB layers from an input image and plays with them changing scale colour, relative rotation etc then recombines. So it can get many effects.
12.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ive been adding a cloud shader to Deepest Blue. I wrote my own editor so it is easy to use my data and models. It can compile, show errors but has no debug. I am used to writing a shader, commented out most of the lines then adding back each line sending the output to the colour to check range.
12.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally got round to opening my BlueSky account. I am Steve Turner author of Avalon, Dragontorc, Quazatron Ranarama and many more. Now finishing a 3d epic remake of 3d Soace Wars called Deepest Blue, soon to be released by Graftgold Studios on Itch.
12.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
I did a session to 4.0am the other night try8ng to sort out a new shader to create a nebula. Haven't done that for a while.
12.07.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
