Water Falls and Rivers plus Lava Lakes and Streams
With the new water physics I was wondering if you guys could add in natural water falls and rivers into the environment.
This would be absolutely beautiful with the terrain you brilliant minds have made, and if the river is wide enough it could give engineers some opportunities to make boats that can cross, go up, and go down stream as a way to easily get resources or travel.
You could also mess with the flow rate of the water and make it very slow moving like honey and give it a lava texture and a glow. This would be great for volcanos or very hot environment design.
You could also mess around with using lava as a source of energy maybe?
I don't see too many samdbox games that have environments where there is lava all around like it's water.
(I wish No Mans Sky would have done this)
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Anyone else think this would be cool?
Anyone else think this would be cool?
Not only do I think the lava idea is cool, I suspect it will be an easy adjustment for them to simply give some water a lava texture and make a cool new lava planet. Would be cool to be able to make things that can travel through the lava as well!
In terms of waterfalls, i'm pretty sure they have already showed something like a waterfall off somewhere...
Not only do I think the lava idea is cool, I suspect it will be an easy adjustment for them to simply give some water a lava texture and make a cool new lava planet. Would be cool to be able to make things that can travel through the lava as well!
In terms of waterfalls, i'm pretty sure they have already showed something like a waterfall off somewhere...
"Volumetric water" is not enough to simulate a nice waterfall. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
More precisely - your computer does not have enough power (and never will) to calculate the flow of water and its fall in a gravitational field in sub-nanoliter volumes, the formation of droplets when the flow hits obstacles, and the simultaneous effect of aerodynamics on the fall of the water flow and the formation and fall of water droplets. So in addition to volumetric water, you need realistic aerodynamics. And without this, a nice waterfall will not happen.
If a “nice” waterfall was shown somewhere, it was probably supplemented in handheld mode with visual effects.
Lava/magma - it depends on what you expect from it.
At a basic level, it's a liquid - and can be simulated in the same way as volumetric water, with a different density and viscosity (for simulation purposes).
The problem is simulating heat exchange with the environment and the associated change in viscosity of flowing and solidifying lava. It is the change in viscosity is responsible for most of the varied shapes of lava flows that we see in nature.
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"Volumetric water" is not enough to simulate a nice waterfall. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
More precisely - your computer does not have enough power (and never will) to calculate the flow of water and its fall in a gravitational field in sub-nanoliter volumes, the formation of droplets when the flow hits obstacles, and the simultaneous effect of aerodynamics on the fall of the water flow and the formation and fall of water droplets. So in addition to volumetric water, you need realistic aerodynamics. And without this, a nice waterfall will not happen.
If a “nice” waterfall was shown somewhere, it was probably supplemented in handheld mode with visual effects.
Lava/magma - it depends on what you expect from it.
At a basic level, it's a liquid - and can be simulated in the same way as volumetric water, with a different density and viscosity (for simulation purposes).
The problem is simulating heat exchange with the environment and the associated change in viscosity of flowing and solidifying lava. It is the change in viscosity is responsible for most of the varied shapes of lava flows that we see in nature.
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Since they are probably in the middle of sculpting these planets we should all think about what might be cool add-ons to them that they could feasibly add. Like desert canyons or arches that where carved from flowing water millions of years ago or weird looking jungles with new plant life that was evolving before the engineers got there or geysers that spew out water/steam that can flip or mess with vehicles.
Any new thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Since they are probably in the middle of sculpting these planets we should all think about what might be cool add-ons to them that they could feasibly add. Like desert canyons or arches that where carved from flowing water millions of years ago or weird looking jungles with new plant life that was evolving before the engineers got there or geysers that spew out water/steam that can flip or mess with vehicles.
Any new thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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