An Interesting Future for Outerra

[Pe11e 812]

Visuals are just wow. Few shots are photorealistic.

[mebull 27]

Here I am, cleaning up the drool again! Getting dehydrated and grinning from ear to ear!

 

Regards,

[Acetone 34]

Some details about the next update: 
 

There are still issues with the clouds, so I'm trying various algorithms to get rid of artifacts and to improve the lighting. Maybe we will release one version without them, just to get the rest of stuff tested.

Some of other changes:

• collision shape support in importer
• static object collisions
• lights support
• $include support for scripts
• uncached video capture (faster)

 

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Old lights video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fyTy5UFBmA

[AviatorMoser 353]

The future looks bright for Outterra.

[Acetone 34]

The future looks bright for Outterra.

Yes

 

 

 

Anyway, even though the thing is still not finished and it's not unlikely that it will be redone differently yet, I think there will be a testable ugly version soon™ to break the fast. A couple of things that prevent me from pushing it out now - rendering not working when you are inside the cloud, cloud cover missing after 100km, and various artifacts. I'd at least like to fix the inside rendering before the release, but I'm not sure what obstacles await me there yet.

Cameni here

[User72 28]

That's impressive even before it's ready!

[twiggys 41]

All coming together splendidly.

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

Very impressive!

[wolke85 150]

Yes

 

 

Cameni here

 

Stunning even by now - absolutely stunning!

[simmerhead 885]

Looking very good. Glad to see things are progressing.

[HiFlyer 9,363]

[HawkDsl 50]

youtu.be/R2k1iKRNWkM

 

 

Holy Cow!

[twiggys 41]

Holy Cow!

+1

[User72 28]

That's something special!!

[Acetone 34]

Two pictures from the ground:

 

 

 

Some shading will have to be done even with shadows off, because terrain lighting is wrong with overcast.

It should be not only under shadow, but also the atmospheric scattering should lose bluish tones, unless the sun is actually below the clouds. Also the ambient lighting now must be different for stuff under and above the clouds.