Water Shader and Atmospheric Scattering

[TheFXGuy]

When it first started, the only words that I could think were "holy crap, holy crap, is that real?". This is worthy of the Xbox 360, m8.

[Webking271]

Very beautiful!

[JDoucette]

Good job. I was making a non-real time photorealistic renderer, before putting it on hold to develop Duality ZF, and this is what I was working on when I stopped. It was quite complex. I wanted it to work for any situation, and any atmosphere type, including non-Earth atmospheres, and no-atmospheres. So I was basically replicating reality as accurately as possible. I could go into space and it'd turn black as it should. I am curious about how accurate your real-time demo is? It looks good. :)

[handkor]

I'm not going for accuracy but more a "realistic enough" look. I want certain thing to be more caricature than realistic. If you look at my other movie "Plastic Procedural Planet" you'll see some of the range of the shader. This will eventually be in playtest this year.

[JDoucette]

I checked that video out as well. It looks realistic enough, for sure. What game are you planning on making with this? A flight sim? I think the clouds look amazing. I'm a little surprised that you put it together so quickly and how simple it is. The Xenon fill rate is just amazing, so there's a lot that can be done. Good job!

[handkor]

Yes I'm making an Arcade Flight Sim focused on bombing. The planet is more for a space sim that I'm also working on.