Aniostrophic filtering shaders image - Empire At War Remake: Galactic Civil War mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
This mod catapults Empire at War into 2077. It maintains the game's design philosophy, while adding new units, better graphics, and deeper gameplay.
Aniostrophic filtering shaders
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Special thanks to Bob from the mod hub for these new shaders. They make textures and especially bump maps more crisp.
Just gib
Shame about that planet texture though! High quality models etc. with a dated texture in the background.
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Yeah it pains me as well. Can only stretch a 2K texture so far sadly, I have to look into finding a solution to this problem because it's really a thorn in my eye.
Can you tile the UV?
That's not an option if we want to use moving clouds that interact with light.
What if - hear me out - you wouldn't need to use the planet shader, but instead split it into multiple meshes with different layers.
- The bottom would be solid with meshbump (where the texture itself would include the lit and shadow terrain),
- then an additive layer with layers/effects (could be small 512^2 texture and the actual mesh wouldnt need to be the entire sphere surface)
- and then on top you would have an alphascroll with tileable clouds.
Most of the planets are "fixed" anyway (especially if you decide to use this close-up method) and the rotating aspect of it, despite being realistic, makes little sense.
As for the resolution, the bottom layer and lights dont need to be too high res. It's the clouds that are moving and thus attracting most of the attention.
This way you could make much more interesting planets and gas giants with clouds forming a hurricane or whatever you would like.
What's wrong with setting the planets further away i.e. making them smaller?
How did you do it with the Coruscant map? That one looks really nice.
There is one thing that really annoys me since the dawn of the vanilla game, especially after playing hundreds of hours over the years: In every battle there is this hologram of a stormtrooper/rebel soldier or mercenary giving you the same orders over and over and over again. Can we finally please get rid of it? Thanks.
The new adjustments are amazing and I really can't wait what you're coming up with in further updates.
could always find somone to draw out the planets for ya? make a whole new textured planet?
Wow nice work, their looking real crispy.
M.Wittmann
Where would one find this modding hub? :)