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I also noticed there's a seem in one part of the cloud map, not sure if it's a texture issue or just the texture tiles just aren't aligned right

KSP with BD Armory is basically ACE but you can build the planes

Screenshot album while getting the footage for the compilation video: https://imgur.com/a/Jmw2bTV

Here's a little compilation I made, stunning work again blackrack

Holy.. no way, I was literally just today realizing this could be done using a similar method to rain! Looks amazing Also got the rain shadows and mist working, just had to remove the BouldCo folder I have some screen coming soon!

Yeah I tried it at 1x and it is delicious, by my laptop 3060 wasn't too happy about it. Hopefully I'll be building a future-proof PC soon with a 3090 to start so that luxury will have to wait. Side note: Installed KSP again soley to run ray marched clouds and I forgot how CPU intensive KSP is just in general, especially with paralax and multiple parts in play (nothing to do with the clouds) but it reminded me it's time to upgrade. Also @blackrack been meaning to get back with some reports but honestly I'm still working on getting my head around how how incredible these clouds are, like it's not just the visuals, but how it changes the entire landscape being explored. It's truly stunning. I found it funny I remember thinking how amazing it would be for the in-VAB/SPH clouds to be that good in-game, now they're literally better..

Also to note: I found you can increase the upscaling on the clouds without much playability degredation but with notable increase to FPS and lower GPU demand, x16 still looks decent in my opinion.

2nd to last shot.. wow, can't wait to explore these atmospheric landscapes

Excellent, I think this is my first time seeing just the normal clouds from orbit and they look way better than I expected, I can't really see any patching/looping going on so you must have tuned the scale and noise real nice, the plumes are also great from space, especially over the horizon, one the haze gets integrated, I can't imagin how epic seeing some residual red sunlight catching the top of one will look at the terminators

Do these separate entities run at a higher size scale to the main clouds? I'm curious how these might render in scaled space if if it might be possible to scatter these like 3d anvil heads amongst the 2d clouds layer in orbit

Bro, now you're just flexing, unbelievable work here

So what if it is? He isn't bound to a contract to release this before KSP2 becomes available. I know everyone's hyped as hell for this, as am I, but let's all just remember that this is a free mod being developed by someone in their own personal time, for fun. As someone who has released mods I can say that having people expect and push for deadlines really turns the project into a job rather than a fun project, and this can put modders off working on the mod itself. Please be patient and let him work on this at his own pace when he feels like it; it's a personal project, not a job contract.

All of these make me feel like I'm accending into another plane of existence

That's great news! Glad to hear they'll still be included, cube maps are super important for RSS sized planets. Also loving what you were mentioning about how the 2d cloud maps can be used as a probability map for 'sub' cloud formation, I think this method should work much better on larger scales and give more control. Also that gif looks unbelievably good, I already thought the volumetrics looked amazing!

I guess I really only looked at DCS, MSFS and Star Citizen to be fair, but yeah MSFS just hard cuts them off before the horizon, and I guess as mentioned here Star Citizen just uses a massive noise scale. This makes sense, I guess you'd be running two cloud setups in paralel and switch between so at least double the performance cost. But I'm definitely keen to tinker around with the values once it's available! I was wondering; would these volumetrics be compatible with the older 2D cloud detail maps that include transparency that I had been using for RSS? And also with the 6x 8x8k global cloud cube maps? Jool should make a great experimentation area for larger scale and SS volumetrics for sure! Can't wait to see what you can come up with!