{"id":4486,"date":"2016-12-25T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2016-12-26T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T00:38:13","slug":"p0-p-172-part-76-surface-to-space-atmospheric-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p0-p-172-part-76-surface-to-space-atmospheric-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"P0-P-172: Part 76: Surface to Space Atmospheric Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have discovered an easy solution to a problem that I was having with the Space Environment. The skybox was not changing depending on the players position, and so I wrote a relatively simple script to blend a starfield skybox with a regular skybox based on the players distance above the planet.<\/p>\n

Despite it’s simplicity, this actually works very well. I can also extend this by adding other sky types, but I think in future I will use procedural skyboxes, ie, shaders. This would give me a much more powerful ability to create not just different types of skies (morning, evening, etc) but also nebulae, deep space starfields, etc.<\/p>\n

Creating each skybox as a set of 6 static images in an external program, and then blending them is not a viable solution for the long term, but it does give me proof of concept.<\/p>\n

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