Removed hard zone boundaries
Fixed stuff that broke because of hard zone boundary assumption (stardust placement, vertical fog)
Added a skybox!
Removed density-based albedo boost (_TintExponent) to improve perceptual uniformity at different step sizes, reconfigured shader to achieve / surpass previous looks and performance
Cell Brush has a material editor now to enable variant selection
Enabled Caching Shader Preprocessor
Moved raymarching loop into CloudShader
Get environment settings from game manager to enable configuration / variation
Introduced slope-based nebulae damping and volumetric flow
Hid optional volumetric features behind preprocessor branches
Created shader variants selected by global keywords for all shaders depending on volumetrics
Environment settings used to configure shader variant selection
Moved dynamic lighting settings to own subclass
Dynamically adjust gravity map isoline contour depth range according to zone contents
Applied nebula lit shader to "planets" and asteroids
Modified gas giant shader to accept nebula lighting and to be a bit less crappy in general
Fixed raymarching depth sampling perspective distortion
Added new clouds shader with improved raymarching loop
Currently only being used in main menu (rest is coming right up!)
Removed WWise (it's nice, but all it's doing is throwing exceptions rn since we ain't about to get a license)
Fixed towing system
Tweaked Nebula Flow (a lot)
Extracted environment appearance settings into ZoneEnvironment data structure
Stardust particles now follow global flow field
Implemented hostility system - entities can mark each other as friend or foe depending on changing conditions (currently only depends on local security level)
Added "friendly" target indicators in blue
Changed title font to Montserrat
Added trailer-specific camera transitions
Added key to hide UI
Fixed input listening while console is open
Added animated zone reveal effect in galaxy map
Added Ping action for sensors
Added debug console commands (e.g. give command to get any item in legendary+ quality)
Temporarily disabled wwise
Fixed infinite loop in weapon penetration code
Guided missiles now predict target position
Fixed hitscan weapons
Fixed invisible enemies bug
Fixed various loadout generator issues (can now generate turrets!)
Fixed wormhole crash when enemy is targeted
Saving/loading current zone time when exiting game (planets keep their positions)
Created slime simulation in test scene - WIP
Added ping feature to sensors, pulsing a wave of revealing light into the level
Added IEventBehavior interface, used by sensors and weapons, for behaviors containing event subscriptions which need to be reset when EntityInstance is disposed
Implemented sensor impact for locked weapons (lock speed varies with sensor acquisition)
Added ping cooldown bar to HUD
Added spline curve implementations to AetheriaMath, applied better mapping to wormhole transition animation
Tweaked loadout generator to prefer larger items to a controllable degree (e.g. very important for cargo bays, less for shop inventory), shop inventory bans non-ship hulls and manages internal space more effectively
Added Main Menu scene
Tweaked world map to incorporate secondary colors in zone icons + glowing links
Entity Serialization is now generic
Zone Serialization now includes entities
Fixed bug where wormhole traversal would unbind from player entity
Game Manager no longer spawns entities (loadout file format changed)
Wrote extension to randomly select weighted items from collections (for generating enemies)
Fixed issues when jumping to another zone:
All bodies from the old zone are correctly destroyed
Ship controls & UI transfer smoothly to new ship instance
Animation issues are sorted
Minimap works again
Stardust density is now proportional to gravity depth
Generated zones are double the size and better distributed
Orbital hierarchy actually working now (!)
Station start position actually orbits something now
Max gravity strength remapped to infinity (zone boundary is properly impassable now)
Created menu screen
Created inventory tab with 2 cargo panes and properties panel
Updated the style of every UI prefab
Implemented Blurred UI material
Implemented UI shaders for map layers
Created Map tab (still needs input)
New asteroid models
Asteroid belts have a custom width curve = tighter belts
Zone Generator uses color theory now
Zone gravity well is much deeper, filled with ambient glow
Gravity waves flow over time
Fog follows gravity waves
Gas Giant shader fixed, offsets distort albedo properly
Fog sample distances follow exponential curve
Fog noise offsets sampling position instead of subtracting density = more natural looking noise
Fog brightness fades out at max view distance
