< Just today I have decided to embark on a journey that I have never been able to finish today, but hopefully this blog post will keep me in check for finishing. Anyway, I have had this idea for a while now of a fixed screen with a whole environment for the player to interact with. I think that I will call it Fixed The only thing that I have right now is a layering and lighting system for grass that will be changed in the future.
< The way that the grass system works is before any grass is made I make a texture of some smooth noise then when the grass spawn depending on it's position it will get assigned to a certain level of brightness based on the noise. After this the brightness has color banding applied to it to make it have more distinct regions of it.
< After this the grass will calculate its distance to the light source which in this case is the mouse with the y distance divided by 2 to make the y plains light shorter and make it look more like its just a high up camera not on top of the grass. In the end this external lighting is also color banded.
< The things that were the most challenging was that I had to figure out that I had to divide the final result of the base lighting grid position, I still don't even know what I'm talking about with that. Also it just takes a while to iterate between different values to make it look good but that Is about it. Thanks for reading and have a great rest of your day :)
God Rays will be coming soon probably tomorrow