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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kelsi
a7102ab742 Fix foliage DXT black fringe, insect depth occlusion, and ambient creature animation
- Replace dark edge RGB on alpha-tested foliage with mip-4 average color
  proportional to alpha (low alpha = low trust in original RGB)
- Raise foliage alpha cutoff to 0.4 and remove dither band for cleaner edges
- Disable depth test on insect particles so they don't vanish behind foliage
- Exempt dragonflies/butterflies/moths from foliage animation freeze
2026-02-23 07:34:29 -08:00
Kelsi
77012adbc6 Add alpha-tested foliage shadows: per-batch texture binding and shadow map receiving
Shadow casting: foliage batches now bind their actual texture in the shadow
pass with alpha testing, producing leaf-shaped shadows instead of solid cards.
Uses a per-frame resettable descriptor pool for texture sets.

Shadow receiving: foliage fragments now sample the shadow map with PCF
instead of using a flat constant darkening.
2026-02-23 05:55:03 -08:00
Kelsi
ef1e5abe8e Add shader-driven tree beautification: wind sway, SSS, color variation, AO
- Vertex wind animation: 3-layer displacement (trunk/branch/leaf) with
  quadratic height scaling so bases stay grounded
- Shadow pass: matching vertex displacement split into foliage/non-foliage
  passes, removed UV-wiggle approach
- Leaf subsurface scattering: warm backlit glow when looking toward sun
- Per-instance color variation: hue/brightness from position hash via flat
  varying to avoid interpolation flicker
- Canopy ambient occlusion: height-based darkening of tree interiors
- Detail normal perturbation: UV-only procedural normals to break flat cards
- Bayer 4x4 ordered dither replacing sin-hash noise for alpha edges
- Foliage skips shadow map sampling and specular to prevent flicker from
  swaying geometry sampling unstable shadow/highlight values
2026-02-23 03:53:50 -08:00
Kelsi
83b576e8d9 Vulcan Nightmare
Experimentally bringing up vulcan support
2026-02-21 22:04:17 -08:00