Ephemeris 2 is a middleware solution for implementing a dynamic 24 hour Skydome System. It is running on top of The Forge and therefore supports all the platforms this framework supports.
Check out the demo video by clicking the main image above!
- Dynamic 24 hour time cycle (sunrises, sunsets, blue sky, sun and moon)
- Atmospheric Scattering
- Volumetric Clouds
- Godrays
- Procedural Night Sky and Star-field
- Simulation of astronomically correct sun, stars and moon (coming soon)
- 2.5D Clouds for mobile (coming soon with Ephemeris 1)
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All releases happen in sync with The Forge and have therefore the same release number.
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Release 1.41 - March 5th, 2020 - Path Tracing Benchmark | CPU Cacheline alignment | Improved Profiler | D3D12 Memory Allocator
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Release 1.40 - February 20th, 2020 - Resource Loader | glTF as Geometry Container | GDC Talk | User Group Meeting
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
Ephemeris 2 - the game Stormland from Insomniac was released. This game is using a custom version of Ephemeris 2. We worked for more than six months on this project.
Maintenance release following the update of The Forge.
- New features
- Add Earth radius: controls the radius of clouds' radius with scale factor. The clouds field will be flatter and the user can see further along the horizon if the radius increase
- Add noise flow: controls the direction and intensity of clouds' noise flow
- Add rotation: rotates clouds based on a certain pivot position.
- Add the second layer: it is possible to generate the second cloud layer which can act, independently
- Add FXAA
- Added Procedural Night Sky and Star-field
- Now, the user can costomize the night sky's nebula colors
- Added Glow effects on Sun and Moon
- Fix a issue that Godrays can be drawn on unexpected area
Maintenance release following the upate of the Forge.
To build Ephemeris you would need to download the latest version of The Forge. Your folder overview should look like this:
The-Forge
Custom-Middleware
We can customize Ephemeris to fit your game engine (UE4, Unity, and even any custom engine)!
Insomniac Games - the game Stormland is using a custom version of Ephemeris 2. We worked for more than six months on this project.
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