Improved Sun and Moon texture handling + Realistic textures

[OpenSauce04]

This fixes the issue where the sun texture needed to be really small otherwise it would be absolutely massive in-game
I also added some realistic textures for the sun and moon to better fit the overall vibe of the shader.

Before:

After:

[jebbyk]

nah, this was before

[jebbyk]

halo is pretty visible at night. and also it makes some kind of cool effect on clouds at daytime.

[OpenSauce04]

By before I meant with the vanilla textures
I think that my optimization caused some issues as technically the sun and moon are taking up the entirety of the texture instead of only a tiny spot in the middle, but I moved it (the sun and moon) really far away to make up for the size

[OpenSauce04]

Also I remember seeing one or two people were talking about how the sun produces an absolutely blinding amount of light (which I agree with), so I tried to fix that without ruining how it looks
Also, the moon just doesn't look like that irl, there is way too much glow
Personally I think it looks better this way, but it's your call at the end of the day

[OpenSauce04]

And again, I think this is worth it for the new moon textures, as the pixelated moon can be jarring with how realistic the water and everything else looks
The sun was less of an issue because you couldn't even see it most of the time

[OpenSauce04]

The majority of the server seems to agree too (from yesterday's poll)

At the end of the day we could even try to re-implement the glow later on

[OpenSauce04]

Also the sunsets look much cooler imo

[OpenSauce04]

I've updated the initial screenshots to reflect my recent changes

[jebbyk]

I still think it will be better to make big but not so bright halo. It will mimic blooming effect

[jebbyk]

and again "before" screenshots are not showing how it was actually looking before

[OpenSauce04]

I still think it will be better to make big but not so bright halo. It will mimic blooming effect

I will try this tomorrow, although I definitely wouldn't be if possible for it to be the size it was before without the sun and moon's filesize becoming completely ridiculous
I can make it a bit bigger though, perhaps half way between how it is now and how it used to be?

[OpenSauce04]

and again "before" screenshots are not showing how it was actually looking before

Changed it :v

[jebbyk]

I still think it will be better to make big but not so bright halo. It will mimic blooming effect

I will try this tomorrow, although I definitely wouldn't be if possible for it to be the size it was before without the sun and moon's filesize becoming completely ridiculous
I can make it a bit bigger though, perhaps half way between how it is now and how it used to be?

vanilla texture is not that big. and I prefer vanilla one because changing textures is texture artists task. so in a conclusion I think its better to leave all as it was before but decrease halo intencity.

[OpenSauce04]

vanilla texture is not that big. and I prefer vanilla one because changing textures is texture artists task. so in a conclusion I think its better to leave all as it was before but decrease halo intencity.

Well I mean everyone else prefers the new ones

besides this isn't stopping other texture artists from just changing this to something else, or even the vanilla one

[OpenSauce04]

The filesizes ended up being smaller than I expected due to most of the image being empty space, so you'll be glad to know that a large halo is still possible with new textures

[jebbyk]

vanilla texture is not that big. and I prefer vanilla one because changing textures is texture artists task. so in a conclusion I think its better to leave all as it was before but decrease halo intencity.

Well I mean everyone else prefers the new ones

besides this isn't stopping other texture artists from just changing this to something else, or even the vanilla one

we are making shader, not the texture pack. that is why I don't want to change vanilla textures. I have an idea how to keep really vanilla texture without big amount of empty space btw. and also keep hallo to

[OpenSauce04]

we are making shader, not the texture pack. that is why I don't want to change vanilla textures. I have an idea how to keep really vanilla texture without big amount of empty space btw. and also keep hallo to

Pretty much every shader in existence changes the way the sun looks; We are the outlier here. Also that point is kind of made irrelevant by the fact that we changed basically every single block texture to implement normal and spec maps :P

Also yeah I worked out the halo, it should look how it did before in terms of size, although less bright because it was way too much before

[jebbyk]

technically only thing we need is to sample sun/moon texture only in center of a sun/moon plane and programmelly draw a hall around it

[jebbyk]

I don't like big amount of empty space in sun/moon textures too

[OpenSauce04]

I'm not really familiar enough with GLSL to do that, so you'll have to work that out
For now, I'm working on a solution to draw the halo using the old system.

[OpenSauce04]

How's this? (Still got to make some adjustments to the moon)

[jebbyk]

I think something between current intencity and "before" intencity will be ideal

[OpenSauce04]

Here's the new moon I just finished

[OpenSauce04]

I think something between current intencity and "before" intencity will be ideal

I think this is bright enough
Any brighter and the sky would just look white wherever the sun is with no detail whatsoever

[OpenSauce04]

Do you want me to do another poll -_-

[jebbyk]

I want vanilla sun and moon texture :-D and just a bit brighter halo (idk maybe 25 - 50% brighter)

[jebbyk]

ALGTM. Gonna check it on my phone and merge

[OpenSauce04]

ALGTM. Gonna check it on my phone and merge

Is this still happening or?

[jebbyk]

sorry im just trying to find a minute to do this. University and work takes a lot of time :-(