Real-time Procedural planet renderer in Java: Video 2

[@togmeister8604]

I love procedural stuff. It's amazing it allows you to create entire worlds that go on for ever and only have to save a 4 number value.

[@plrc4593]

What 4 numeber value?

[@marshalcraft]

My the rings of saturn look beautiful this time of year.

[@togmeister8604]

This perfectly demonstrates that Java is not a terrible programming language. Seriously annoying how people just see C++, C#, C+, Java and just instantly put Java in the corner. Java can do great things too.

[@josemariacalvo6324]

Togmeister This actually doesn't demonstrate anything. Java is not in charge of drawing the scene or calculating the geometry (this is usually done within the shader). I don't think Java is a terrible language either but it clearly falls behind most modern languages in terms of features and productivity.

[@togmeister8604]

José María Calvo It does demonstrate something actually. GLSL is dependent on Java. If java is late at calling then GLSL is also late at running it's code. It's like saying if you get them most high performance program ever and run it on a potato it's going to be even better. Also WHAT? Are you seriously saying that Java is not modern compared to other big languages. Well actually for your information: Java is 20 years old C is 40 years old C++ is 36 years old C# is 16 years old There are probably the 4 biggest languages. And Java is the 2nd oldest out of 4 of them. So no, your completely wrong compared to other big languages Java is pretty modern. And your telling me that it lacks "features and productivity". Oh yeah, I'm also letting the fact slide that Java was first developed to be easy to learn and high performance. One, java is platform independent, it can be run on any program without having to recode it completely. Two, java has automatic garbage collection, something many languages lack. And do I really need to bother writing down a list of things java has other languages don't. And yet all you write is "java doesn't draw the scene or calculate the geometry", oh yeah now why would a programming language do anything it's meant to do? And "java lacks what modern languages have in terms of features and productivity". Yeah wow, just wow.

[@NekronataRaeven]

Togmeister Oh great, modern PCs are finally fast enough, so Java can do, what other languages could do 5 years earlier, what an archivement -.-. Java has by design a crapy performence, and will always have it (compared to others), since its focus is multiplatform and not best performence ..... For stuff like this here, Java is the worst language to use, as its bad performence actually impacts electricity usage heavy (duo to modern PCs trying to addopt to the actuall need - there is a huge difference if my CPU and GPU can run it with 50 Watt, or have to go full Power because of Java crap and blow out together 350-400 Watt for basicly the same).

[@josemariacalvo6324]

NekronataRaeven Agree, but there's no point in presenting facts and figures to a Java fanboy :) (or any other fanboy for that matter)

[@togmeister8604]

NekronataRaeven Search on Wikipedia and other sites. Java was designed to be very performance friendly and very simple. By design it is of course not going to have as many advanced features, it's designed to be simple. Also I'm not a Java fanboy, I'm just saying that Java is not any worse or better than other languages.

[@togmeister8604]

That looks like it is suppose to be Saturn which you can't land on but still doesn't matter if you can in this. It would be epic if Earth had rings like Saturn.

[@pedroth3]

Amazing!!

[@I77AGIC]

excellent job. one of the better planets ive seen =)

[@xGORJAx]

This looks amazing. is there any way you can make the atmosphere higher though. they all seem to have hardly any depth in the sky. great work though.

[@1Ray2]

The LOD loading is fantastic! I can't see any pop in or chunks loading.

[@iconsumeworlds]

That is...fucking amazing.

[@deviljerome]

great work, but i dont understand what u mean with "rendered",did u use 3d software for modeling or all this was programmed in java? what is the pipeline u used for this? it has really very good quality

[@iamdipankarj]

Did you use quadtree for LOD?

[@coolboyz444]

what course if any did you take to learn how to do this thxs :) been trying to learn things like these but been hard to find good course and videos

[@1985woooman]

Music??? The description gives the wrong song.

[@e11y1985]

Epic

[@mekohler]

Since when did Chopin go by the name "DaFunk" :o

[@xGORJAx]

Also, is there a way to procedurally generate wild life? Is it possible to have planets thriving with thousands of variants of creatures?

[@croja07]

+xGORJAx With the power of algorithm wizardry I'd say so

[@doctor_whoey3857]

No Man's Sky is a ps4 game that does exactly that, and its a wonderful game as well

[@BlueShift2142]

Why? Java is absolutely fine. Explain why it would be bad, mr. know-it-all?

[@ordnaelmeister]

Java...sorry for your choice...