I switched to experiments with 3D clouds, star surface and water.
- Duke

Oh man, it's wonderful to hear this is being worked on. When you say Star surface, do you mean like, active coronas? Flares and CMEs?

Yes, but with some simplifications. Because in SE time can flow in both directions it is difficult to use pure physical simulations.

ARBB: I already recommended Afluby water and clouds, it comes with global illumination, ray-tracing, and it is good enough for planetary scale, with few reworks Duke can implement it into the engine. (hopefully).
https://m.youtube.com/user/afluby

I saw this work and many other works on internet. Unfortunately there is no good enough implementation of volumetric clouds which can maintain quality for all scales from space to ground. A lot of work need to be done to implement such system.

I saw this work and many other works on internet. Unfortunately there is no good enough implementation of volumetric clouds which can maintain quality for all scales from space to ground. A lot of work need to be done to implement such system

What about his water?

What about his water?

I think in the "planet video" he used a water that is very similar to the one SE actually use.

If you mean that wonderful water with waves and stuff of the other videos it's probably very complicated to be implement in SE, also because it requires real-time reflections and those cannot be easily implemented since water it's not a flat plane (like in 99% of games) but a sphere that covers the whole planet. So it's hard to see it in the 0.9.8.1 version, maybe in the next one. 

If you mean that wonderful water with waves and stuff of the other videos it's probably very complicated to be implement in SE, also because it requires real-time reflections and those cannot be easily implemented since water it's not a flat plane (like in 99% of games) but a sphere that covers the whole planet.

Well, proland deal with this feature pretty well, outerra too.
> But Artur-desu, those are pre-rendered closed systems with optimizations specially made for those specific environments, therefore, not only those games handle the water better, but you need to consider different parameters for different fluids in another planets and such, b-baka!
 dang right, but better shaders would be nice.

I saw this work and many other works on internet. Unfortunately there is no good enough implementation of volumetric clouds which can maintain quality for all scales from space to ground. A lot of work need to be done to implement such system

What about his water?

As I understand from code his implementation is for plane. And yes I think proland implementation is better suit for SE, but it requires some opengl 4 functions.

As I understand from code his implementation is for plane.

Correct, he is working on a plane simulator.

 And yes I think proland implementation is better suit for SE, but it requires some opengl 4 functions.

And what is the problem with that? Does the engine needs to be updated? Also, in his procedural planet video, even tho the clouds don't look nice, the water seems pretty.
 If you haven't checked, there is a more close project with SE that Silviu Andrei made, here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/asilviu2008

As I understand from code his implementation is for plane.

Correct, he is working on a plane simulator.

 And yes I think proland implementation is better suit for SE, but it requires some opengl 4 functions.

And what is the problem with that? Does the engine needs to be updated? Also, in his procedural planet video, even tho the clouds don't look nice, the water seems pretty.
 If you haven't checked, there is a more close project with SE that Silviu Andrei made, here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/asilviu2008

I mean water shader is working on flat plane, not on the spherical planet. And yes, for proland like water some parts of SE must be reworked. Also I saw Silviu's work. It was made on DirectX and it hasn't been published anywhere yet.

Will the new raymarched nebulae still allow you to use cubemaps to define the shapes of catalog nebulae?

I realized from looking at LifeLive42's "Stellar" video that dust clouds in galaxies are still using sprite rendering. Are they going to be changed to raymarching in 0.9.8.1, or will that wait until a later version?

I realized from looking at LifeLive42's "Stellar" video that dust clouds in galaxies are still using sprite rendering. Are they going to be changed to raymarching in 0.9.8.1, or will that wait until a later version?

I realized that, probably needs more works for a galactic scale.

Will the new raymarched nebulae still allow you to use cubemaps to define the shapes of catalog nebulae?

No, they are completely procedural.

I realized from looking at LifeLive42's "Stellar" video that dust clouds in galaxies are still using sprite rendering. Are they going to be changed to raymarching in 0.9.8.1, or will that wait until a later version?

We didn't even started working on galaxies.

Will the new raymarched nebulae still allow you to use cubemaps to define the shapes of catalog nebulae?

No, they are completely procedural.

So does that mean catalog nebulae will still consist of sprite particles in 0.9.8.1?

 Also I saw Silviu's work. It was made on DirectX and it hasn't been published anywhere yet.

He posted it on his blog. Do you mean, the actual download for the engine?

 Also I saw Silviu's work. It was made on DirectX and it hasn't been published anywhere yet.

He posted it on his blog. Do you mean, the actual download for the engine?

Yes.

Past week (and weekend) I had working on implementing a precise planet and moons ephemerides. Today lunar eclipse:
I will make a blog post with details after completing this system.

Past week (and weekend) I had working on implementing a precise planet and moons ephemerides. Today lunar eclipse:



I will make a blog post with details after completing this system.

Nice