[New build - EXPERIMENTAL] 22w21a: Terrain Improvements

[tsunamayo]

A follow-up on the terrain build. Both performance and look have been improved.

New Features:

• Terrain computation is much faster (from 30ms jobs to 3-4 ms)
• Job scheduling is also smarter. It will be noticeable when flying near terrain.
• Terrain loading is also optimized, for reduced FPS impact when moving near terrain.
• New textures added for rock, ground and ore.
• The new shader uses separate color gradient to prepare for a wider range of asteroids look / biome (for upcoming planet)
• Terrain will tesselate up close: the terrain will loom much higher resolution. It helps massively especially for rocks.
• Iron ore vein are being spawned.

• Terrain shadow have been added.

  Known issues:

  • A lot of shadow artifact when new LOD are being loaded.
  • A few issues with the border between different LOD. The current tech is not working well with tesselation, so it will be changed.

[tsunamayo]

Build is up! Thanks all, tell me if you have FPS issues with tesselation (I might need to add a setting to deactivate it). Thanks

[ZachZent]

ROCK AND STONE!

[Camzx]

ROCK AND STONE BROTHA!