Saturday, January 23, 2010

Atmospheric scattering

hi
this time i'm showing atmospheric scattering using oneil atmospheric scattering from gpu gems 2.
to implement it correctly i started with cpu based solution which computed all the nasty integrals on cpu and store it in a texture, this cpu solution used so i can debug and fix issues with the integral computations.
after everything works on cpu i convert it to gpu version and use it as default.
this texture is then mapped on a sky dome where camera eye is at origin.
clouds are procedurally generated using few noise textures, they also change their color based on sun direction.
for now i'm not taking into account sun lighting, shadowing this is simple solution so the sky wont look empty.
here is a short video to show it in action: