Science of the Spheres - development

[gmpd2000]

...Or, how about this? Pictures taken by spacecrafts can be printed as posters and hung on the wall!

Nova, I'll throw gold at you if you implement this.

[Whirligig Girl]

Nova, I'll throw gold at you if you implement this.

He'll have plenty of gold, from mining it in the Microverse!

[NovaSilisko]

Nova, I'll throw gold at you if you implement this.

I'll take that gold in advance if you don't mind.

[NovaSilisko]

http://gfycat.com/ShockedBogusHare

Beginning of day/night cycle for headquarters scene. Still need to get a nice starfield texture, right now I'm just using a tiled one.

[Voidryder]

Just played around in the prototype a bit. Looks like it's going to be a winner. So if someone wanted to support your efforts with a modest donation, how would they go about that?

[NovaSilisko]

So if someone wanted to support your efforts with a modest donation, how would they go about that?

Wait a while, until there's some manner of official preorder thing set up. Donations are tricky to have, even if you put in huge red letters that donating doesn't entitle you to a copy of the game, people will think it does anyway.

[Whirligig Girl]

http://gfycat.com/ShockedBogusHare

Beginning of day/night cycle for headquarters scene. Still need to get a nice starfield texture, right now I'm just using a tiled one.

It's gotta be a real life one, but like with a super tiny change that no one would notice. Like, changing orion into something different.

[Voidryder]

Wait a while, until there's some manner of official preorder thing set up. Donations are tricky to have, even if you put in huge red letters that donating doesn't entitle you to a copy of the game, people will think it does anyway.

Copy that. Wasn't expecting anything. Just wanted to help out a genius. But I'll wait until pre-order.

[NovaSilisko]

Did up some lights that come on after the sun sets. Need to make proper sources for them, but...

(still no real earth stars)

Edit: And a quick video of a sunrise http://gfycat.com/AnimatedCornyKouprey

Still at much accelerated time, final one will be real-time.

Edited February 19, 2015 by NovaSilisko

[NovaSilisko]

Shelves!

[Bill Phil]

This game looks promising! I hope all turns out well.

[Voidryder]

Had to do a double take on those shelves. Thought they were the real deal on first scroll. Nice job.

[gmpd2000]

Photorealistic shelves!

[carlpilot]

Nice work lately! One question, how are you creating procedural planets? My attempt wasn't very good.

-Carlpilot

[NovaSilisko]

Nice work lately! One question, how are you creating procedural planets? My attempt wasn't very good.

-Carlpilot

Generally it's just a process of having multiple layers of noise blended together over either a fully procedural sphere, or a pre-made mesh sphere. For terrain textures, it's a matter of using vertex colors to blend together the different textures, and using a triplanar shader to make it map nicely onto a sphere.

For the terrain itself, look into Libnoise.

[Dres]

Just started looking into this, and it looks very, very promising!

[The Czosnex]

Me too! I'm eager to play a more recent version too

[NovaSilisko]

Writing up a big blog post about the recent development history and the current plan. Approaching 700 words and several images so far.

Edited February 24, 2015 by NovaSilisko

[Andersenman]

tl;dr

dl'd.

[NovaSilisko]

[gmpd2000]

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN! CHOO CHOO

Nice ambience!

[Whirligig Girl]

[removed because it should just die apparently]

Edited February 28, 2015 by GregroxMun

[NovaSilisko]

http://pastebin.com/3vvjushy

"Another game entirely."

Is this then the explaination, at least partially, for that alieny-starbuildy-thing?

I do wish that would die and be forgotten already. The backstory in SotS is very different than that rambling thing.

[Whirligig Girl]

I do wish that would die and be forgotten already. The backstory in SotS is very different than that rambling thing.

I would like to inquire, what's so bad about it?

Edited February 28, 2015 by GregroxMun

[hotmailcompany52]

SNIP

That video looks pretty awesome! I presume that was rendered in realtime? If so how performance intensive is it going to be?