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.
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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.
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VolumeSampling created its flow keywords in static field initializers, which a scene runs inside a MonoBehaviour
construction where Unity refuses GlobalKeyword.Create; they are now created lazily from LowerFlow. FlowField.Scroll and
Cycle return phases strictly below 1. The nebula noise reads _NebulaNoiseTime (zone time) instead of _Time.y. New
FlowFieldTests pin the per-octave fold to the unfolded law across wraps, the cycle at days of zone time, and the phase edge.
The Unity checks for these are in the next commit; this one builds, its parity check does not yet read the noise clock.
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- VolumeSampling registers FLOW_GLOBAL / FLOW_SLOPE with GlobalKeyword.Create (the constructor only looks up).
- FlowField.Scroll folds each Tri3D octave's phase modulo 1 in double (float2, [0,1)); Zone.Flow evaluates at Zone.FlowScroll.
- FlowField.Cycle: the nebula's flow cycle and Stardust's particle lifetime phase come from zone time (_FlowCycle, phase uniform), not _Time.y / Time.time.
- FlowFieldParityVerify reaches the keyword-gated flow(), fails on logged errors, tolerance 3e-4; mutants updated.
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FlowField (ServerShared) is the flow law; Zone.Flow/FlowScroll read PlanetSettings.Flow at zone
time. The Flow block moves from DefaultEnvironment to PlanetSettings (ZoneEnvironment key 1 is
retired), VolumeSampling's frame-clock scroll accumulator and the Stardust leftover field are
deleted, and slopeFlow returns 0 for a zero gradient. Unity parity probe follows in the next
commit; this commit has not been built in Unity.
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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
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
