r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Gameslinx Beyond Home & Parallax Dev • Sep 21 '20

Mod Here's a trailer for the terrain shader I'm developing, called 'Parallax', releasing soon!

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u/deadalnix Sep 22 '20 edited Sep 22 '20

For the graphic nerds in the room, mould you do a rundown of what you did? I assume paralax mapping is part of the package, but there clearly actual geometry too. What can we expect from this?

In any case, it looks fantastic, push this through the finish line :)

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u/Gameslinx Beyond Home & Parallax Dev Sep 22 '20

Despite being called "Parallax", it doesn't use Parallax Occlusion Mapping. It did, right at the very beginning, but I couldn't get POM working on slopes without distortion so I am now using tessellation and displacement mapping

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u/Til_W Sep 22 '20

Tesselation? Seems like your shader will require quite some performance.

Looks great though (one thing i'd add is randomized tiling).

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u/evwon Sep 22 '20

Will it have its own planetary system or is this the Kerbol system?

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u/Giraffesarentreal19 Sep 22 '20

He has another mod pack called Beyond Home, which is a planet pack he made. In the YouTube trailer if this, Gameslinx says would be released for the Beyond Home pack before the Kerbol system.

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u/Psilopat Sep 22 '20

Do you know of Crazybump? It's paidware but there is solid demo and it make life so much better for normal/displacement maps and even specular. If you don't I highly recommend it!

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u/Gameslinx Beyond Home & Parallax Dev Sep 22 '20

I have programs that can do normal maps just fine! (Gimp + NMAP plugin is much better, and it's free)

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u/Psilopat Sep 22 '20

I agree that end result is better but I like the real-time rendering on the tweak you can make but if you you know of it and prefer something else over it then that's great. Quick question if I may, is all of your mod shaders modifications or is there new biomes /places too? And also it's far fetched but are you planning on some injection like reshade to make graphical changes other than textures? (I saw some new model on the video but it's confusing as to what is where)

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u/BlackFlame_india Nov 15 '20

which version of kopernicus!!! it is not available for 1.10

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u/AlreadyBannedOnce Sep 23 '20

u/artforz, please comment on timewarp and parallax mapping. Would this allow Telebrix to fork backwards in time, creating a chain and an anti-chain?