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.
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VolumeRender and VolumeRenderCustom shaders, the four Fog Marching
materials, ZoneRenderer's FogMaterial/FogFarFadeFraction and its
_DepthCeiling/_DepthBlend writes, the ARPG scene values, and the
Volumetric.cginc _TintExponent, texFlow and tintGradient (with its
commented-out caller). The live nebula is VolumeCloudRenderer + CloudShader.
Unity compile not yet run on this commit.
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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>
2K-JPG Color/Roughness/NormalGL (+Metalness, AO where the set has them),
generated MetallicSmoothness.png (R metallic, A 1-roughness), texture and
material .meta files, SOURCES.md. Unity side not opened yet.
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AetherDriveData and AetherDrive, Union(12) (now a retired-do-not-reuse comment, as 26 is),
HardpointType.AetherDrive (last member, nothing shifts), Ship's drive sets, aggregates and
Axis write, the five request-field rows, GameplaySettings Aether multipliers, ShipInstance's
drive particles, SchematicDisplay's RPM display and AetherDriveUi, the undock refusal's drive
clause, the drive prefab and material, and AetherDb's drive roles and brownout row. The
design is kept at parked/aether-drive.
Adds EveryShippedShipHullHasATopSpeed. ARPG.unity still holds stale serialized references to
the removed SchematicDisplay fields and the RPM Display object; the next commit removes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added credits display to trade screen
Fixed bug in inventory screen where a failed drag from a cargo bay would make the item disappear until a refresh is triggered
Changed behavior of Escape key to exit menu if a menu is open
Fixed zone map gravity isolines to correctly track maximum gravity depth
Refactored orbit and planet data to replace reactive variables with regular ones
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
Improved volumetric flow performance by orders of magnitude
Cleaned up old raymarching support code
Moved asteroid height calculation to vertex shader
Manual culling for asteroid field render update
Converted remaining .blend files to .fbx
Type check safe cast operator broken in DictionaryInspector? Wrote around it
UI Materials not blending properly - fixed by switching to Fade transparency mode
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
Tweaked the density function for the clouds - fill density now fades smoothly to zero over safety radius
Changed the way density is mapped to luminosity in volume color sampling
Added directional lighting to clouds
Changed raymarching accumulation logic
Fixed step artifacts (reverted to simple blue noise sampling)
Added more aesthetic trails to "slime" effect
Created prefabs for planet and asteroid stations
Added model for adrasteia ship
Integrated audio changes from Defirm
Map icons now have a constant size independent of zoom level
Galaxy Map now displays zone properties when clicking on a zone
Zone generator now uses half of nebula density, means smaller and more varied zones
Stations will refuse docking to entities with insufficient clearance
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
Implemented saving/loading of custom input settings
Incorporated Input Screen in game
Organized UI scripts into folders
Deleted some unused UI scripts
Reimplemented Fog Blur (by copying modified DoF to assets)
Replaced Unity TAA with PlayDead TAA
Custom keyboard layout test scene
Adjusted Aetheric Drive VFX to be more subtle
Reworked stardust VFX to reduce flickering artifacts
Added Action Bar & weapon groups saving/loading
Implemented security levels and faction safe zone visualization
Improved station placement (now include defensive turrets)
Fixed: unable to undock with an aetheric drive (game requires locomotion)
Entities have a chance of dropping any item on board when killed
Mine behavior generalized to grid objects, used in dropped loot
Added tractor beam (not itemized yet) which pulls in nearby loot (and mines!)
Items are added to player inventory when they collide with the ship (and mines explode!)
Added console command to spawn turret
Added Aetheric Drive hardpoint and item behavior
Added Drive RPM UI to HUD
Fixed death not disabling continue option
Disabling global input when dialog is visible
Fixed loadout generator failure when zero price item present
Replaced fixed top speed with drag coefficients
