Planet Generation Shader
Your regular old earth-like planet. The shader generates light on the dark side of planets using a population slider.
A cold planet with a high ocean level.
A high temperature island world.
It can also generate Mercator-projection maps.
Or generate entirely alien planets!
Or more realistic chunks of rock...
Personal project - a planet generator using some simple noise textures and a very large and slow shader. Done mostly to see if I could generate something that looked good and felt somewhat realistic as a planet generator entirely in a shader.
The shader works by sampling all the 3D noise textures to generate temperature, humidity, and height textures. It uses these to pick between different biome colors and generate a normal map for the surface derived from the height.
