{"id":7703,"date":"2019-04-07T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2019-04-07T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:43:20","slug":"p0-a3-part-542-world-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p0-a3-part-542-world-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"P0-A3: Part 542: World Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The issue with the planet textures and shaders at long distances from the origin should be fixed.<\/p>\n

The solution was to actually encode the terrain height into a second mesh UV channel, and then simply read that data from the shader. This was a much more elegant and effective solution than performing a distance calculation in the shader itself.<\/p>\n

I have still got quite a bit of work to do on the shaders, there are several shaders involved in terrain rendering, including water\/ocean shaders, grass shaders, and the actually terrain shader itself, they will all need to be modified.<\/p>\n

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The issue with the planet textures and shaders at long distances from the origin should be fixed. The solution was to actually encode the terrain height into a second mesh UV channel, and then simply read that data from the shader. This was a much more elegant and effective solution than performing a distance calculation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a3","category-astral-realms","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","category-spiritus-astrum","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}