Rain Visual Effect
Swipe & Tap
Tap the landscape with hills, trees and a river. The landscape turns dark. Hear and see rain.
Swipe to View. Tap for Rain
Shader Visual Effects
WebGL GLSL shaders modify the light and mix texture maps.
Efficient Rendering
You're viewing this landscape from the center of a sphere. Downloads are much faster when complex scenes render and display to the inside of a sphere. Most scenes require thousands of vertices that take a long time to download and initialize.
The background scene was modeled with 3ds Max, rendered to a spherical map, then applied to the inside of a sphere with WebGL.
More Scenes!
3D Environments
All scenes by Seven Thunder Software load with efficient 3D rendering software. Save download time with basic shaders and one texture graphic.
Skybox Waste
Avoid skyboxes, multiple image files, and separate shaders.
For example, common skybox programming uses uniform
samplerCube
with method
textureCube()
to display six images at a time.
Additionally textureCube()
requires program changes
during rendering.
Efficient Backgrounds
The cubic and spherical scenes, I've implemented, require just one program and one image for speedy display time.