A quiet view from orbit

This is another case of I could not help myself… but also a way to try and show how the planetary surfaces are coming along. Yes many things to do!

Apart from that, the crap quality of the planet mesh and the fact this almost feels like a relaxing screen saver, no further comment.

I hope you enjoy!

Nah, ok some details:

• Not very good rayleigh effect, still learning.
• 3 cloud layers which I will crank up to 6 to match atmospheric scale heights
• Raymarching so this is volumetric although low quality for performance reasons!
• The planet/surface is 100% flat
• 100% shader based.
• Coriolis etc are there but still not very good.
• I tested this on an Earth-like planet… but obviously slightly less hospitable worlds will have to be rendered too, so I expect I will use mucho uniforms, varyings and the like!