{"id":567,"date":"2009-06-16T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T11:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-06-22T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T01:23:14","slug":"sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/06\/16\/sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Sky.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"Sky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Sky-300x195.png\" alt=\"Sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Sky-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Sky-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Sky.png 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Okay, I&#8217;ll confess; \u00a0I&#8217;ve been hesitating to start on procedural building construction, because it&#8217;s kind of a large, scary topic. \u00a0But I&#8217;ll start on it tomorrow, honest.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, today I worked on sky rendering. \u00a0In the previous screenshots I&#8217;ve shown, the MMORPG Tycoon sky was a flat gradient that was drawn behind the terrain; \u00a0that gradient remained exactly the same, whether you were looking up or down or whatever. \u00a0Today I threw that out, and replaced it with a proper sky dome, and added some moving cloud layers. \u00a0I quite like how they&#8217;ve come out, actually.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start on procedural buildings tomorrow, honest. \u00a0I&#8217;m not expecting to have much in the way of viewable results for a few days; \u00a0there&#8217;s a lot of groundwork that has to be covered first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll confess; \u00a0I&#8217;ve been hesitating to start on procedural building construction, because it&#8217;s kind of a large, scary topic. \u00a0But I&#8217;ll start on it tomorrow, honest. Instead, today I worked on sky rendering. \u00a0In the previous screenshots I&#8217;ve shown, the MMORPG Tycoon sky was a flat gradient that was drawn behind the terrain; \u00a0that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9WK-sky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}