HarbingerDawn wrote:

rodrigo wrote:

Source of the post also included 0.9.8.1 version fixing the volcano lava issue

Just got around to testing it, and I still have this issue.

Anyone else having this issue?
I noticed that shader changes only take effect after deleting the cache folder, so could you try doing this?

I deleted the cache folder again just in case, and I still have the issue.

a little suggestion for volcanoes. ;p
not sure if it's okay to suggest things here for addon makers.
would delete if you want.

some volcano types, disregarding eruption types.

Rodrigo's mod already produces a variety of volcano types.

Julian wrote:

Rodrigo's mod already produces a variety of volcano types.
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They look like standard SE volcanoes besides some texture differences.

Is Rodrigo's mod going to be implemente onto version 0981? Not as a mod, but an actual change in the engine? Because that would be fantastic, terrain in SE is repetitive, and those additions and fixes would be appreciated.

We had a terrible bug with gas giants clouds. How can we deal with it?

SpaceNer wrote:

I have an idea, I think you should update this or make a mod to have volumetric/3d clouds!

one if the most impressive scenes in alien covenant is the height on the the bump maps on the clouds
maybe making the bump maps have more height could replicate this?

Would it be possible to add the Intertropical Convergence Zone (aka that band of clouds at the equator) on procedural planets?

kipster wrote:

SpaceNer wrote:

I have an idea, I think you should update this or make a mod to have volumetric/3d clouds!

one if the most impressive scenes in alien covenant is the height on the the bump maps on the clouds
maybe making the bump maps have more height could replicate this?

I actually did that with my Belle Hades planet, although I don't know when I'll be able to release the update. :S

Late Edit: This article came out recently: https://www.livescience.com/31109-plant ... ivers.html

Essentially, Earth without plants looked quite a bit like default SE rivers without mods, and currently, Earth with plants have rivers as we know them now. Rodrigo would it he possible to simulate this in the shader mod? Basically, a terra would have to have life on it before the Rodrigo rivers can be activated?

21th november update

Small tweaks. Also removed the norocks mods, as the terrain doesn't get spiky anymore.

Go explore! There are some nice vistas out there 

Hmm, would it be possible, for rivers that have no outlets such as here, that the central island would be removed so it could be a lake instead? That way it'd increase realism even more.

Procedural noises are not so easy to manipulate. Basically, because you don't know where some feature will appear, they are noises at the end. Also, there is no way to determine that the feature is, i.e. in the code you have no place like "island_in_a_looped_river = ..." That loops appear because of too large modulation of the input coordinates to the function, which generates the depression in the elevation (the river bed). So the island is simply one shore of the river. If you adds a damping to that shore elevation, this will result in turning half of the continent to the ocean, in a places where rivers "flows" normally.

Yikes! Good to know, thanks

Edit: What about a size limit to the river circles, disabling the shore suppression once the loop is bigger than some midsize lake, to avoid disappearing continents?

There is no way to calculate the loop size. They are unplanned features, appearing due to too high amplitude of a noise, which distorts a river shape. With a procedural noise, you can't predict where any feature will appear, and can't predict or calculate its parameters such as a size. You may only tweak them "in average", and modulate some of their parameters by another, large-scale noise (like river "amplitude" is damped at high elevations and in the seas).