Granyte and cie

A while ago I acquired a surface pro 1 on launch day and everything was nice and good the Surface pro is a wonderful piece of hardware very powerful for its size. Then bad luck hit I accidently exploded one of the kick stand hinge. I was already out of warranty and I could hardly see myself calling Microsoft and telling them it was standing on a desk and the kick stand exploded I have no idea what happened. By the way the Surface support is incredible while I was covered I got two exchange for my tablet one because a firmware upgrade bricked the thing in the very early days and another because the keyboard connector stopped working again all those exchanges happened very early on, the whole exchange process was 3 days and shipping was covered. But now I’m there with a broken kick stand hinge and no warranty so I go to eBay to find the parts ... no luck the surface 1 the surface pro 1 the surface 2 and the surface pro 2 all use different hinges and no one really seem to

I just fixed the galactic cloud rendering       And for those who noted it in the previous shots look at the speed

  I Recently updated the star rendering system and though it was  good enough to show but while I was taking screen shots I realized I had quite a bit of screens I never upladed so here they are for comparaison. First those are using a hand crafted skybox                 this one is from the old method for star rendering       Welcome to the new one but right now clouds and nebulae rendering is disabeled on these    

Lava lakes ocean on any other kind of lava now properly glow.   When bloom is enabeled the effect is pretty impressive     It's been a while since the last update but I have been quite busy so no I'm not dead and the project I still going on

I spent some time recently updating both my galaxy renderer and the planetary renderer i added particle to render the billions of star that we see but cannot distinguish and also for the dust that block the view  I implemented rendering to the sky box so now the skybox of every new starsystem is unique and generated on the fly by the renderer to match the view from the specific solar system I also added a methode to allow rendering of black holes and other non star object from the galaxie view ]