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Seamless Refracting Water

I made another prototype, which demonstrates refractive water that integrates seamlessly with the terrain. You know how in some games, the water will form a little edge  where the water meets the terrain or whatever solid object is intersecting it? This program doesn’t have that problem, the water blends right into the terrain, making the water look great.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to make truly refractive water, but what I have looks refractive, and in graphics, looking fine is really what it’s all about. Anyways, here is a video and the download is available at the bottom of the post. If someone asks, I can explain the technique that I used in another post (Though be wary, as it would be quite technical.).

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The controls are the usual WASD control system, and Q and E move the camera up and down. Use the mouse to rotate the view. Click to make the window capture the mouse, right click to release it.

If, when you run it, you see no refraction and just a terrain, your graphics card is too old to run this prototype. My apologies to you, but there is nothing I can do.

Nebula Prototype v2

This is a new version of the Nebula prototype, and it has point textures. This means that although I’m giving OpenGl ~32,000 points, the texture makes it render ~200,000.
Unfortunately, it is also slightly slower.

This version does not have the ability to generate a new Nebula, but it retains both blue and red colorings of the nebula.

Downloads:
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Nebula Prototype

This prototype creates a procedurally generated nebula. It is quite laggy, and so if you don’t have a modern graphics card/processor, you probably shouldn’t even try it.

Screenie:
A screenshot of the nebula prototype

You can use WASD Controls for x/z movement, and move up and down with e and q respectively.

Press F to regenerate a new nebula.

Press R to switch between emissive nebula and reflective nebula. (It is by default reflective)

Press 1-3 to switch color schemes for the nebula (1 is blue, 2 is red, 3 is green)

Right click to rotate the camera with the mouse

Downloads:

RAR Format

ZIP Format