Realtime Gradient Sky

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SkyGradient.rar [818kb] – VB 2005 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

I had a request from the same MMORPG developer which asked me for Non-Reflective Water to make a simpler version of my old “HLSL Sky Demo”, which I haven’t put on my blog yet because I’m not all that proud of the code.

Basically, I was asked to copy Worlds Of Warcraft’s skies; so make a tweakable gradient-based day sky solution, that renders fast and looks good, and most importantly that behaves well in huge worlds with big height variations.

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Non-Reflective Water

Downloads

NonReflectiveWater.rar [7.9Mb] – C# 2.0 (VS.NET 2005)

Description

I had a request from a MMORPG developer to make a lightweight water shader that doesn’t need a reflection rendersurface, yet looks acceptable.
It looks nowhere as shiny as the reflective water shader or even TV’s built-in water, but it runs a zillion times faster because it doesn’t do any parallaxing, nor specular bumpmapping, nor perspective projection… Its implementation is alot simpler as well.

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