Coding Adventure: Procedural Moons and Planets

Trying to generate some simple little moons and planets to fly about and explore.
Inspired by the (incredible!) game Outer Wilds.

Project Files:

Resources:

Music:
"Brief Respite" by Antti Luode
"In the Clouds" by Falls
"When Rain Comes" by Tide Electric
"Reflections of Space and Time" by AEROPLANES
"Liminal" by Chelsea McGough
"Frontier" by Shimmer
"Sun and the Moon" by Moments

Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Spheres
3:09 Craters
8:10 Noise
10:40 Triplanar Mapping
14:21 Planet Shape
15:28 Ocean
17:30 Planet Shading
20:06 Solar System

[SebastianLague]

Hey everyone, hope you enjoy this latest coding adventure! It’s quite a bit longer than normal, I maaaay have droned on about some things longer than was really necessary :P But if you make it through, I’d love hear any suggestions you might have about how it could be improved, or about things that I should try add. One thing I have begun experimenting with already is adding atmospheres to the planets, so will likely be covering that at one point in the future :)

[tomburns]

"Collaborated with Stack Overflow" is the programming quote of the century.

[drainbamage]

Astronaut: wait... It's just a bunch of noise on the sphere?
Sebastian Lague: Always has been...

[SgtRumpel]

He's the only magician that can explain all his tricks and still it seems like magic :D

[demoman]

This man could easily start another show, called "The Joy of Coding". Also he's like Bob Ross of programming

[unknown]

"I then collaborated with StackOverflow ..."
Ah yes, a classic move in computer science ;)

[littelbro]

Whenever I feel like a competent programmer, I come here to keep my ego in check.

[SirLordSpam]

imagine this combined with the portals to create a stargate like space station

[compugeniusprograms]

15:41 "I then collaborated with Stack Overflow" - Every programmer ever

[VaradMahashabde]

20:35
"It's all noise?"
Seb with finger on del button : "Always has been"

[celiacasimiro]

Why do I feel like eventually Coding Adventures is going to combine a lot of the features from the older Adventures, like the rabbits and foxes, from the ecosystem, e.t.c

[crowdozer]

at this point I'm expecting a "Coding Adventure: Conscious Artificial Lifeforms" soon

[TriggerHappyRC]

Alternative title: Sebastian makes an Outer Wilds prototype.

The fact that a single person can make something like this is still absolutely crazy to me.

[iminni]

"Collaborated with Stack Overflow" xD

[fatnose]

an atmosphere would probably make some of the planets look a lot better from the surface. This is by far my favourite series can't wait to see what you make of it

[ProvencalG]

Damn. Now you can add the ecosystem, boids and even the clouds you made. With optimization, and probably cutting some high performing cost details, this could contains so much of your past work! Well done, inspiring as always.

[jameshughes]

i absolutely love how you are visually showing the concepts behind how you are using your code. I suspect that you are making a whole generation of kids fall in love with math. Thank you

[Bacony_Cakes]

Sebastian, we all know you're making Spore 2. And we have one thing to say: Please do.

[minticedteaenjoyer]

"Do you think the world is simulated and the moon and planets are just procedurally generated?"
"Impossible."

[Exxag]

What is says: "Coding Adventure"
What is really means: "No Man's Sky 2 - Devlog"