Previously we did not take into account the atmospheric transmittance
to render the stars, leading to stars being incorrectly rendered in
low visibility conditions.
Also place the stars in the correct render bin.
- Terrain and clouds and now rendered on the envmap, with correct aerial
perspective.
- Each face is rendered on a separate frame to help with performance.
- All faces are updated every 1.5 minutes. This can be changed through a
property.
We also now pre-expose our lighting before writing to the HDR buffers.
This solves some precision issues and prevents the Sun from producing
infinite values.
- New atmosphering rendering technique based on my own work.
- Attempt to fix some remaining transparency issues.
- Use a luminance histogram for auto exposure.
- Add support for clustered shading.
- Add WS 2.0 shaders.
- Add 3D cloud shaders.
- Add orthoscenery support.
Use Uniform Arrays instead of Texture1D.
Use ambient/diffuse/specular/shininess material
properties consistently across all WS30 shaders.
Use consistent shading model for photoscenery vs.
landclass to minimize visual difference.
- The G-Buffer layout has been redesigned to be 96 bits per pixel. There are 24
unused bits that can be used for extra material parameters later (like
clearcoat).
- Add better debug views for the G-Buffer.
- Use octahedron normal encoding. This yields the same results as the previous
method but uses 16 bits less.
- Use rg11fb10f for the environment mapping cubemaps.
- Tweak the shadow mapping parameters and add a colored debug mode.
- Only render shadow maps for objects that inherit from model-default.eff or
model-pbr.eff instead of having a fallback Effect. Now transparent objects
should be ignored (if they are marked as such with model-transparent or
similar).
- Remove the separate occlusion texture. Now the PBR Effect expects a single
texture where R=occlusion, G=roughness and B=metallic.
- Add an utility linearizeDepth function to help visualize the depth buffer for debug purposes.
- Use 'color0' instead of 'color' for all color attachments.
- Do not write to the HDR buffer if a fragment doesn't need shading (depth = 1).
