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This website is hosted through github pages using commercial source control to allow editing by all the members of our team.

The foundational CSS HTML and Java for this website have been designed to help our team to reach a wider audience of people and showcase our developments to any possible investors and people interested in playing our games.

For this project I was tasked with using a noise algorithm to generate a chunk of terrain using the OpenGL graphical framework. The task allowed for a lot of creative freedom and thus I decided to take it a step further than the basic ideas presented.

I used C++ to generate a set of Perlin noise in the form of a cube map and used the generated texture cube to modify vertices into a cubic planet and converted the cube to a sphere using linear interpolation of sphere maths.

I then applied an exponential distance-based tessellation algorithm to the terrain and wrote an algorithm for temperatures of the sphere based on moisture and proximity to the equator and used this to apply colour as if it was a real planet.

I added some Rayleigh scattering in a shader to simulate an atmosphere and used random variables to initialize the procedural planet with a second celestial body orbiting it with a minimal saturation to simulate a moon.