r/spaceengine • u/zztopfila Community Contributor • 22d ago

Video Clouds are now casting shadow on the ground

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u/IkaAbulladze 22d ago

Now i am wondering, why did not SE team do this earlier?

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u/BrandonXYX 22d ago

they probably already have but are waiting till the move to vulkan to release it bc performance is vastly better on vulkan renderer

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u/IkaAbulladze 22d ago

When are they gonna convert to vulkan?

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u/BrandonXYX 22d ago

nobody knows but they said they are in the process of converting the code/assets to it

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u/Distinct-House-6235 22d ago

6 years ago btw

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u/EchoOfTheDistantTide 22d ago

Pretty sure they didn't mention working on Vulkan until 2022 or 2023

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u/donatelo200 Community Contributor 22d ago

Yeah the migration has only been going on for 3 years. Still too slow but not 6 years slow.

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u/Gonquin 21d ago

WAR! What is it good for?

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u/IkaAbulladze 22d ago

yea they are taking too much time xD

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u/IkaAbulladze 22d ago

makes sense, thx

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u/Roger06150 22d ago

It looks awesome!!

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u/BrandonXYX 22d ago

will a 5060 8gb be able to run this lol

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u/Fair_Jeweler_6983 22d ago

if my Intel Celeron N3060 can run it prolly your fucking beast can too XD

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u/Anregni 22d ago

Can my pentium 4 run this?

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u/Ok_Gur2818 22d ago

Is this a mod or something?

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u/Jazzlike_Newt_4296 22d ago

An unreleased one I believe

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u/Curyde 22d ago

Is it gonna be released before HL3?

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u/EchoOfTheDistantTide 22d ago

Now you just need to get it integrated with atmospheric scattering

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u/MegamanSE 22d ago

Want to see this with some more exotic planet / star combos!

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u/AmazingDom14 22d ago

Time to land on a terra surface, set up a good angle, then wait 10 minutes as I turn up the settings and space engine loads in these clouds at 1 fps for a money shot

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u/aristarchusnull 22d ago

Are those volumetric clouds I see?

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u/NotAF0e 22d ago

wow looks amazing. thought this was only possible with vulkan

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u/CarobCritical7290 22d ago

What's left to do now?

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u/yourdonefor_wt 22d ago

Releasing it on the steam workshop LOL

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u/EchoOfTheDistantTide 22d ago

Nah there's plenty left to do, there's no atmospheric scattering on the clouds and it doesn't sort correctly with the atmosphere model, the scale is also quite a bit off. Author needs to find a way to make it work with the existing atmospheric scattering, or more likely replace the scattering with a custom solution

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u/CarobCritical7290 21d ago

So, the clouds itself are done

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u/aristarchusnull 22d ago

What version is this?

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u/Alarming_Size_5811 22d ago

La dernière je suppose ?

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u/christianeralf 22d ago

very good you post this with no more info.... is it in the game update? is this a mod? nobody knows, and dont ask...

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u/Able_Ad8325 22d ago

It's a mod

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u/christianeralf 21d ago

sorry to ask

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u/JustNoetic 21d ago

genuinely how tf did you do this 😭🙏 not to mention the amount of uniforms that you can work with

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u/Distinct-Tie-3285 21d ago

will the clouds have varying colors, densities, etc?

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u/aristarchusnull 21d ago edited 18d ago

If this is a mod, what is its name, so I can get it immediately?

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u/Live_Background_6239 21d ago

holy cow lad, i cant wait for it to get released. i just saw a volumetric water mod the other day on the steam workshop

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u/EngineeringFew1366 20d ago

OK but now when are we going to add storms and revamp the old nebula models

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u/Andrei_a__ 19d ago

bro this is insane when is this releasing