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Has anyone considered applying signed distance fields for effects related to entering and exiting gas clouds? It would be impressive to see a large ship emerge from the cloud bank and have the mist streaming off of its hull.

Mike SnowdonVFX Director

Chris wants that. Everybody wants that. But it is a good example of how we can use SDFs. It's a little bit tricky because the gas clouds themselves, or the volumetric planetary clouds themselves, they're not going to react. So it's not like we're going to morph the volumetric form itself. But if we do it with particles, which we'll try and do, we need to just make it look like it's connected to the cloud. So it's quite a tricky one to do. We've already actually done some experiments with it. Trying not to give away spoilers. But it's something that we've definitely worked on visually. And as I say, Chris wants that. I understand why, because it's a great idea. So that's another one where I'm saying yes, we're definitely going to plan to do it.

Star Citizen Live›VFX Team Q&A·
Published on this date.11 Mar 2022