Ambient Fog Light leaves Zone Brushes (root object, same pose) and Sector Tint.mat moves from
PowerBrush to Brushes/Ambient Brush: brightness falls as exp(-x^2 ln(1/_EdgeBrightness)), x in
units of Zone.PopulatedRadius. ZoneRenderer.FitAmbientLight, called by LoadZone, is the one
writer of the quad's size and _Reach (the radius where it is 1e-5 of the centre). AmbientEdgeVerify
renders the real scene object through that call. Builds in Unity 6000.3.24f1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Patch Displacement no longer culls layer 9; cloudDensity adds the surface displacement to the patch-only displacement.
GravityFieldParityVerify wiring checks the camera. Neither commit has been built when this is written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Zone.WellReference owns each body's reference zero (GetHeight uses it). Gravity.cginc mirrors GravityField.Potential;
Brushes/Gravity Field draws depth = -h on layer 9 from a StructuredBuffer that GravityLowering.Lower fills from the
zone each frame; GravityLowering.CreateField makes the one quad. GravityFieldParityVerify renders it and compares every
texel with -Zone.GetHeight (max error 0.0059 u), the gradient with GetForce (0.03 degrees) and the wiring.
Deleted: the Gravity Well children of Planet, Gas Giant, Sun and PlanetOutpost prefabs, Wormhole 1's three gravity
children, their overrides in Main Menu and TestScene, five wormhole/wave materials and two brush shaders,
Planet.GravityWellDepth/Radius, BodyData keys 6-7, PlanetSettings.GravityDepth/GravityRadius (and the Settings.asset
keys). Surface Displacement culls layer 9 only. Headless build and tests not yet run at this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
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
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
Modified weapon scripts to eliminate specialized projectile behavior - allows charged weapons to have projectiles and modify weapon stats when charged
Added machine gun weapon & VFX
Moved third party code to Plugins folder to improve compile times
