Rendering puzzles

Ha very nice stuff!!

I noticed you are using a fullscale texture, I would suggest a slope based splat shader for texturing (later on) and maybe use a fullscale texture as some sort of land/texture type indentifier.

 

Following this with great interest

Hi shadmar, that's an honor Yeah, texturing will be another topic... A selector-based texturing solution similar to Josh's would be great (read: memory-friendly). In addition, World Machine exports very nice splat maps (e.g. defining the path erosion activities), I would lie to make use of those as well.

Very nice stuff

 

Small hint: In most "planetary scale" terrain renderer they use a noise texture to overcome the lack of detailed data and mix it with the lower resolution map to simulate very high detailed closeup views.

Sounds like a great idea. Several materials would probably have a similar noise texture (grass, coarse sand, granite surfaces, ...).

 

But texturing is still some blood, sweat and tears away....

this is awesome!

Very nice work . I think you will find that you will get less tearing in your mesh with quads.

Wow! This is nice. Using what you've done with a tiled system that does stiching would almost allow for planet rendering!

Raster, when is next chapter?

Am on vacation right now, with only very shaky internet access and a Macbook (so no 3.1). Will do the next chapter some time next week, but won't be interesting for the likes of you I am going to describe a tessellation pass-through shader.

Cool, because I know nothing about tesselation/geometry shaders..