Granyte and cie

I'm still tweaking the nebula rendering while it does look good the performance is somewhat lacking viewed from the side of a world

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

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

    Looks like instancing will finaly have a chance to get implemented in irrlicht       Here it is 5000 sphere individualy animated and rendered in irrlicht. I'm uploading the patch Uploaded http://www.mediafire.com/?qv441dv4anp2jjo 

This is my first and very basic atempt to add clouds to my planetary renderer. i'm only using a very simple cloud sphere. I finaly got around fixing the issue i had with TBW's sunflare scene node

Today i finaly implemented normal maping the correct way.

I have almost completly rewritten the way the planetary engine works and the result are here

Both worlds were generated with the same set of textures. So the possibilities will be endless when i will have a true set of textures.

I patched a few things in my old GOL running on HLSL and added an instaler this version should not require any aditional instalation. http://www.mediafire.com/?0cuam1tdhrin6gd

On my Quest to learn HLSL Shader programing i stubeled upon a blog where some one built an implementation of John Conway's game of life using compute shaders after looking up the rules i though about tryingto build one using pixel shader. here is the result running 1024*1024 at 449 iteration per seconds( i might even be able to get a few more out of it) in my edition the dead cells leave a corps behind that slowly fade the color tel wich rule killed them. it runs on pixel shader 2.0 directx 9 while my hardware run shader model 4.1 i generaly build for the lowest possible hardware. randoom cells can spawn from just about any type of image but if you wanna try to manualy build a cell you will need to edit a file pixel per pixel and the file will need to be exactly 1024*1024 So here is the download link  http://www.mediafire.com/?t2ze5jw9q82szcg this version currently require that you install microsoft visual C++ redistribuable here are the links for the downl...

here comes atmospheric scattering this implementation is based on Sean O'Neil openGL implementation wich has been ported to directx for ogre by HexiDave . The original converted implementation was vertex shader based for mie and rayleight color calculation and mixed them in pixel shader to try to obtain a smooth result this made sens when Sean O'Neil implemented it on the merly begning graphic hardware but it gave horrible artifact unless you have a over tesselated sphere irrlicht's 256 polygon sphere were just not cutting it. So i updated the code to make all the calcultations in pixel shader giving a much smoother result independent of the poly count of the sphere.   And for the sake of it a nice sunrise at 1920x1080 (i can't take screen shot in full screen -.-) I just need to verify the license and i will release the completed shader code with constant what is messing and why you most likely are not getting it to work in case you stumbled on my ...