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ok the PowerVR issue might be fixed now? so, if you tried this before on a phone or a tablet and you got a black screen, please try again and tell me how it goes :O mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/1

aeva@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

okie I like this version a lot more (click the link to see it)

zone.dog/games/firmament7/

this version has the clouds draw twice fading in and out in opposite phases. the clouds that are in the invisible phase are re-sorted, thus the system is able to make gentle intermittent corrections to the draw order without being super obvious. I'm using stochastic transparency to do the blending because it turns out using alpha transparency makes the math much harder to get right.

EDIT: nvidia fixed!

aeva@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

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i had a bunch of cool ideas last night and upon waking up this morning for how to add celestial bodies to this (the moon should back light the clouds in cool ways, if i use a celestial sphere to determine the positions of the sun and moon and fixed stars, then i can animate time moving away too fast in a cool way, and also i should put some refraction on them when they're near the horizon) but i've gotta go to work in a few shakes, and i've got a commitment tonight, so probably not today

aeva@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

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i was thinking something like this for the moon passing behind clouds:

basically, have the moon drawn with an alpha masked texture after the atmosphere gradient but before the clouds. when the clouds draw, use the angle between the moon ray and the view ray to blend a different texture onto the cloud texture to add scattering and a halo or something weird like an iris

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A digital painting made in Krita. There is a silhouette of a cat looming over the viewer with bright glowing eyes reminiscent of the moon piercing through clouds. Directly above the cat is the moon piercing through the clouds, with a big radiant halo. The cat's body is dissolving into or coalescing from dark mist. Eerie purple buildings gather around the periphery.Gamedev Mastodonaeva (@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)Attached: 1 image I painted a legally distinct collectable monster to volunteer to a legally distinct collectable monster collecting card game that a colleague of my sister is making. #krita #mastoart