Space Virtual World Adding Volumetric Lighting Effects to Editor

Gorgeous recent image from Space, the new virtual world (and proud sponsoring partner of NWN) showcasing new volumetric effects coming soon to the world editor. "Volumetric" is geek speak for cool lighting effects, to wit:

In volumetric lighting, the light cone emitted by a light source is modeled as a transparent object and considered as a container of a "volume": as a result, light has the capability to give the effect of passing through an actual three-dimensional medium (such as fog, dust, smoke, or steam) that is inside its volume, just like in the real world.

Via lead Space developer Adam Frisby.

Comments

[Imagin Illyar]

I think Space has more potential than Sansar.

[Gordon]

"I think Space has more potential than Sansar."

Definitely. Log in, click the Explore button and search for "Sudin". This is a terrific region for cyberpunk lovers.

[Adam]

Aw, thanks. :)

Yeah - Sudin is my test bed region, I've been messing with it a lot lately, I wish I had more time to really finish it up - one of these weekends I will :) I've got a grand plan involving designing & placing 4km² of city - of course that also tends to take a while. ;)

[I'm a big believer in building tools I want to use, so my weekends tend to get sucked into making all sorts of things.]

One minor point to the original article - this stuff is actually live and out now, we released these features in the April viewer update. I've updated my two regions (Zone 54B - pictured above), and Sudin to use the new post & volumetrics; and I know a few of our creators have started using them in their regions too (although most of it's on our creator grid, not yet migrated to the live grid). :)

If you're a designer and want to mess with the new features, just grab the experimental 9.8 editor pack from the forum to use the new components; they should be fairly straight forward, but we are still documenting all the new things. (Forum link: https://forum.sine.space/threads/experimental-editor-packs.16974/ )