You touched on elevation a little earlier. A lot of folks in chat are asking how elevation factors into any of this.

So elevation is not factored in by default, but when I construct these two textures, like the temperature and humidity, you see these smaller, darker bits here. In this livestream I actually wanted to focus on these two alone, but we can also take a look at the height information of that planet. So now you have another representation as a texture of where the mountains are, where there's an increase in elevation and where it's actually decreased. These darker values are lower, the brighter values are higher. So what I could do is simply take that information, give it a bit more contrast like this so I can actually work with it fully, and now take the temperature and then tell this height information to be subtracted from my temperature. I could do that. And then the elevation of the planet would be factored into the temperature of the planet, simply by me putting that information from the height data into the temperature data. And now, since I took the mountains, in the temperature I said: wherever mountains are, give me a darker value, and a darker value means lower temperature. So whenever you work up to a higher altitude on the planet, you would suddenly start transitioning from these brighter values here over to the darker values until it gets really cold. And then FX picks up on that, and the wind picks up on that, and the color information changes, and the object presets that we apply change as well.

So you just systemically change the temperature by just mixing two different textures.

Yes, because these two textures, this one describes elevation, this one describes temperature, and if I mix them together using certain math, in that case it's simply subtracting that texture from that texture, I get exactly what the people in the chat asked for, which is the height factored into the temperature of the planet. Which is cool.