Screenshots

[Cody]

I already see Cody weeping over all the planet screenshots he took, pondering how would they look with that tweak!

<shakes fist> I doubt I'll be re-taking them. There is one older shot I would re-take, but I can't recall which planet it was.

[another_commander]

Very nice! Will it be the default setting when 1.86 will be out?

I don't think so, because it was a completely arbitrary choice of a parameter that may or may not look good everywhere. However, adding this change to your game is trivial. Just make a Shaders folder under your AddOns, copy and paste the entire oolite-default-planet.fragment file in, then edit it as follows:
Line 170, method calcSpecularLight: Change

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float intensity = pow(max(RdotE, 0.0), exponent);

to

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float intensity = pow(max(RdotE, 0.0), exponent) * 3.0;

or whatever multiplier you prefer.

[Cody]

Did you say somewhere that shaders can be tweaked on-the-fly, without a restart?

[another_commander]

Did you say somewhere that shaders can be tweaked on-the-fly, without a restart?

That is almost correct. You do not need Shift down for changes on the shaders to take, but you do need restart.

[Cody]

That is almost correct.

<grins> Technical term for wrong!

[cbr]

standard trunk'd no tweaks extra detail

[another_commander]

With planet spec tweak:

[Cody]

Cobra vs Cobra...



... you wouldn't think it from that shot, but there was a massive firefight going on around us.

[Diziet Sma]

EDIT 2017.10.04 [#1]
Every web page refresh brings a random group of 9 shots.

That's something which should be mentioned on the page itself.. most people will think it's a static display, otherwise.

[gsagostinho]

With a very small tweak in the planet shader to increase the intensity of the light reflection

Is there a way to tweak the resolution of the results generated by the P3D algorithm, so that the coastlines, clouds, etc. get a bit less blocky at close range?

[another_commander]

Is there a way to tweak the resolution of the results generated by the P3D algorithm, so that the coastlines, clouds, etc. get a bit less blocky at close range?

Not without source code modifications. And if you do that, then you will most likely find that the performance hit starts becoming quite noticeable.

[gsagostinho]

Not without source code modifications. And if you do that, then you will most likely find that the performance hit starts becoming quite noticeable.

I was hoping for some simple shader modification, but I see. Thanks for the info!

[Getafix]

EDIT 2017.10.04 [#1]
Every web page refresh brings a random group of 9 shots.

That's something which should be mentioned on the page itself.. most people will think it's a static display, otherwise.

Done.

[Cody]

If you own a shot and would like to share a descriptive title, please, add it to the below collaborative spreadsheet.

I've made a few minor changes to that spreadsheet, and will add more details later. I presume that doesn't auto-update the Screenshots page?

[Getafix]

If you own a shot and would like to share a descriptive title, please, add it to the below collaborative spreadsheet.

I've made a few minor changes to that spreadsheet, and will add more details later. I presume that doesn't auto-update the Screenshots page?

No it doesn't. I will manually update the screenshots at oolite.org

Edit: Done.