Is out. See newspost. Woo!

YAY!

W00t! Go devs!

-Calder

Nice new planets, but I can't help but think the textures need a little blurring due to the atmosphere.

What's bumpmapping and what did youguys do to the planets?

-Calder

Bump mapping makes a model look like it has more geometry when it doesn't, giving it the look of having detail it really doesn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumpmapping

I found one of the bumpmapped planets, a red planet with something that resembles oceans of lava on its surface

gorgeous!

nice job, Inc!

Thanks Luis. Some of them look better than others, but I'm pretty happy about it overall. The "terran" type planets look a little funky. As soon as Ray gets some extra time and makes me a separate cloud layer, I'll be able to make those look a bit better. For the most part though, I think it's a big improvement :).

Certain sectors, like Dantia K8, Sedina K5, and a few in Edras look pretty decent. Dantia's kinda weird, because the planet's so close and rotating so fast. But it still looks better than it did non-bumpmapped.

You should add a parallax map to the planets, too. That would be cool. :-)

Yeah, parallax would be cool, but not something we're likely to spend time on for awhile. Precomputed radiance transfer would be cool too, and probably have a more widespread impact on everything.

Sweet. Can't wait to see this all on my new computer

I couldn't find a thread on VO v.1.6.0, so I'm posting here: wonderful job on the increased secondary source lighting. Today was the first opportunity that I had to spend any measurable amount of time in a ship flying around. Asteroids look great being lit-up from multiple sides.

Thanks from all who look out their viewports at the scenery.

I have to say thanks to incarnate, i brought up the issue of the lack of detail in the planets and he deliverd, good job inc!

[What part of "BE NICE" is escaping you? - RR]

[What part of "BE NICE" is escaping you? - RR]

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Mute those Ninnies !

Yeah! Sic 'em! Hahahaha.