Questions about new Planet Code

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:18 pm

Is there an idea yet on if / how OXP authors will be able to use shaders, materials, etc on the new planets? Could one of you give me a snippet of sample?

I'm hoping we don't have to do it all through plists, and can actually do some of this via JS like we currently do the textures...? I'd be perfectly happy using a standardized shader for all of them if it meant we could specify the materials used.

I'm just looking forward to the feature release and how it will impact SR2...

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:09 am

There was a vague idea somewhere of using a new .material/.setMaterial() property/function to planets and to discontinue the now-looking-decidedly-provisional .texture property, but nothing is anywhere near being finalised.

There are at least 3 graphic/positioning glitches, 1 missing feature & 1 very randomly occurring bug in the new planets code as it is now, and that's before adding a reasonable looking atmosphere and any new js stuff to it: the planet rewrite is going to take quite a long time to complete, so there's plenty of time to adjust things and/or make suggestions regarding the new planets' scriptability!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:27 am

The current WIP shader supports meaningful combinations of the following texture types: albedo (diffuse), albedo + light map, normal, normal + specular, separate light map. It will almost certainly be possible to set these in a future release, and to specify custom shaders (note: these won’t be directly interchangeable with ship shaders). As usual, we can’t say when.