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Planetary Body Shader

By Dave, 9 February 2010 00:58
Posted in Virtual Universe

In order to render my planetary bodies, I had to consider the following effects:

  • Texture
  • Lighting
  • Relief
  • Atmospheres
  • Clouds
  • Shadows

I'll discuss each of these in later posts, but for now here are some screenshots of the first attempt at rendering a planetary body using these effects.

Earth Shader

Earth Shader

Earth Shader

Earth Shader

Earth Shader

Figures 1-5. Earth Shader

Tagged with XNA
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by Mike Goatly, 9 February 2010 09:52
Dave, that looks awesome - I love the planetary glow! Are we ever going to be able to get the source/binaries for this?
by Daniel Weck, 9 February 2010 15:45
Hi Dave, I enjoy reading your last series of posts. Keep up the good work !! :)
Regards, Dan
by Dave, 10 February 2010 00:06
Hi Mike & Dan, thanks for the support :)
Currently I've no plans to release the code for this work, though that might change in the future. This is still very-much experimental work, for which I'm hoping this blog will serve both as a journal and as a mechanism to discuss the approach I'm taking.

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