I’m super proud of the magic our render team is practicing. Because honestly, how else can you explain these latest screenshots?
Tree destruction tuning is successful – they no longer explode all over the place. Now they fall and break much more naturally.
And of course, we can’t forget to tune ship collisions with Verdure flora – something tells me you’ll be using this feature a lot!
We finalized biomes and voxel transitions. In real life, you don’t have only desert, rocky, or snowy terrain – everything blends together naturally. The same goes for our planets in SE2.
We’re using procedural masks and height based blending to merge materials smoothly across different terrain types. Each biome mixes gradually with the next, creating natural borders shaped by altitude, slope, and humidity/temperature. We made sure transitions are seamless at every distance and every LOD, so planets don’t end up looking like a patched clown costume.
The Art Team is working not only on VS2 content, but also thinking far ahead with our development – working on both surface flora and the underwater environment. The goal is to make the transition from land to water feel natural and alive, with its own atmosphere, vegetation, and lighting.
There are also new blocks connected to the water feature. The team is exploring several water-related concepts, and the latest concept art is looking really nice.
Here are the first try-outs of ocean waves tessellation. It’s early, but the shape and motion are starting to feel right.
And we are experimenting with the possibility of textured water foam.
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