Added a new nebula system. This is my second attempt and looks a lot better then the first.
Still needs a little polish (need some color variance in the clouds). I think in the end I'll need to combine this with the first approach (which was basically a set of shells that had increasing transparency). Doing a large area with the billboard clouds will be too fill intensive (this example is 800 billboards). So I'm thinking the final solution will be the shell with billboards along the edge.
Plus, I need to finally add to my general pixel shader to fade out at a distance so I can bring it in and color it when you are inside a nebula.
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Blog of the creation of the game Ceres Dawn for the Xbox 360.
Ceres dawn is an action rpg where the player controls The Chicago, a heavy cruiser operating in the asteroid belt of Earth's solar system. The Chicago is equipped with two wings of Drones which can be used in tactical combat.
Ceres Dawn is compose of about two dozen single player missions which tell the story of the Union's conflict with break-away group called "The Clan". Between missions the player can improve the capabilities of The Chicago and the Drone wings based on their preferred style of play.
Ceres Dawn is written in C# and will be available on the Xbox indie game channel. Ceres Dawn has a full 3D graphics engine using normal mapped objects and an advanced particle system.
Ceres Dawn is compose of about two dozen single player missions which tell the story of the Union's conflict with break-away group called "The Clan". Between missions the player can improve the capabilities of The Chicago and the Drone wings based on their preferred style of play.
Ceres Dawn is written in C# and will be available on the Xbox indie game channel. Ceres Dawn has a full 3D graphics engine using normal mapped objects and an advanced particle system.