The Eden Project

[AlonzoCPO]

Thats pretty par or the course, and the reason I have a big sign telling my team to not update at all.

[ioFlow Studios]

Unfortunately, I'd really like to try and make some money selling this... which means holding on a fixed version isn't really an option : \

[ioFlow Studios]

Okey doke, am pushing ahead without particle beams because adapt and survive, all that...

Currently vol fog on meshes only does the bounding box for the mesh, but I realised that I could still shape the fog inside the bounding box using shader math and local coordinates.

Here's my first test of this:



You can sort of see the green fog filling the bounding box and the red/blue fog taking the shape of a cylinder.

Now here it is with a bunch of my noise mangling stuff bundled into it.

First up, from back a bit (will be daisy chaining cylinders like this along a spline):



And now some beauty shots flying through it:



And of course, all the colors and noise are hugely adjustable...

[brisck1]

Awesome! Can you share the shader math on how you shaped it within the bounding box?

[AlonzoCPO]

Fair point.

But your method is quite clever to the solution you have. I've seen a few other people use material math to shape the new volumetric fog.

[ioFlow Studios]

Here you go (full shader is quite a bit bigger than this):

[ioFlow Studios]

Righto, cleaned up my blueprint for making spline based nebulas tonight...


It's reeeally easy to use. Gonna tweak all the color mixing and fading now...

[AlonzoCPO]

That spiral like galaxy bit is pretty dang nifty!

[ioFlow Studios]

AIGHT.

Finally got enough new stuff done to make a new video...

Need to do a bunch of optimization now because I want to be able to fill the inside of the galactic arches with scores of little nebulas with a bunch of different color palettes

[ioFlow Studios]

And this one shows how easy the blueprint is to adjust:

[AlonzoCPO]

Oh thats pretty! All splines with generated planes along them?

[ioFlow Studios]

Boxes

(the volumetric shader doesn't support world position offset so you can't do the neat spline thicken stuff with it).

[UnrealEnterprise]

Nebulas are looking nice... But remember 'Eden' and Planets...

Planets Simon...

Look at the picture... Focus on planets.... Return to planets...

[ioFlow Studios]

lol, nearly there, just gotta get the star system names showing up and I'm done

[ioFlow Studios]

Another quick youtube, testing a smaller nebula in side the larger galactic cloud...