TheyWantToEatMyFace! Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Hey @Faatal! As a programmer myself I like to say I really like all the hard work you have put on this game over the years. This stuff is really hard, more so in a voxel game, so I thank you for that! I watched the A19 Dev Stream 6 last night and I noticed you said that you can see underwater from above because the fog is a global thing. I thought however, why don't you make it shader-based like they did in Crysis (2007) instead of relying on Unity's fog? Basically, as water is alpha-blended it should be drawn in the translucent pass like any other alpha geometry, so I assume it should be a way to sample the depth buffer at that point (already drawn by the opaque pass). That's how they do soft particles I think. So, with this and the pixel view or world-space position, you can calculate the volume of water under the surface and apply a linear fog or something better. In Crysis and other games they apply a wavelength-dependent extinction factor to the color of the framebuffer. They even calculate volumetric absorption and fake caustics in more recent games. While sampling the depthbuffer you can even apply a slight distortion like refraction. Another detail I always think when I'm underwater in 7D2D is that the surface should be double-sided (also rendered when underwater) and should reflect downwards like in real life. Now it simply dissapears which is weird. For the reflection look at Subnautica for an example of a very good water reflection. It shouldn't be too difficult addition to the water shader I think. I can provide some articles that describe what I'm talking about if you're interested. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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