XNA Planet Shader 01

This is my planet shader so far - one mesh and a two pass shader for rendering the halo effect.

Still not quite what I want it to be, but getting there ;)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• XNA
• Space
• Game

[RonzanXNA]

I used a second pass in the effect and displaced the verticies in the vertex shader.

Drop me a mail James, I'll mail you the shader part if you want.

[NemoKradXNA]

James??? I have just posted my atmospheric planet shader as a response to yours. I have to say, yours made up part of my inspiration :)

[RonzanXNA]

Sorry mate, I don't know where I got that 'James' from hehe - meant Charles of course ;)

[NemoKradXNA]

lol, np, DRJBN maybe?? Not sure what the J stand for in his name, but think it might be James :P

[RonzanXNA]

hehe yeah must have been Byron I was thinking of ;)

[RonzanXNA]

hehe, yeah it's me again ;)

[jabberwock11]

Nice! Looks cool! I'm working on fractal planets myself. So far I only have wire frame but I'm working on the shader now. I have collision detection and LOD so I can walk around on the surface though. My shader is going to be simplex noise based. I have the planet divided up into 10 zones of each one with a U/V coordinate system. Each zone is basically two adjacent triangles of the initial icosahedron I use to make the planet. I'll make a video when I get the shader in place.

[maxvharper]

How did you do this?! I've been trying to make heads or tails out of HLSL but it doesn't make sense to me. What books/tutorials do you read to learn this?

[NemoKradXNA]

Nice planet mate. I have started to play with a planet shader, was wondering how you get that nice hazing effect around the edge of the planet?

[starvald]

very cool!