3D – Sun

This shader creates a sun with custom color. Here are some tips for the usage of the shader.

  • the texture “voronoi_noise” should use a nice noise texture. OpenSimplexNoise doesn’t look that good.
  • the texture “emission_noise” can be an OpenSimplexNoise
  • play arround with the Glow_Power and Lightness_Difference
  • play arround with the fresnel value

 

Shader code
shader_type spatial;
render_mode specular_schlick_ggx;

uniform float Glow_Power : hint_range(0,10) = 3;
uniform float Lightness_Difference : hint_range(0,10) = 3;
uniform vec4 Sun_Color : hint_color;

uniform sampler2D voronoi_noise;
uniform sampler2D emission_noise;
varying vec3 vertex_pos;
uniform float waveSpeed : hint_range(0,1) = 0.1;
uniform float fresnel : hint_range(0,2) = 1.0;

uniform float scale : hint_range(0,2) = 0.01;
uniform float blendSharpness : hint_range(0,2) = 0.0;

// TRIPLANAR FUNCTION
vec4 triplanar_texture(vec3 position, vec3 normal, vec2 offset, sampler2D noise) {
	vec4 colX = texture(noise, position.xy * scale + offset);
	vec4 colY = texture(noise, position.xz * scale + offset);
	vec4 colZ = texture(noise, position.zy * scale + offset);
	
	vec3 blendWeight = abs(normal);
	blendWeight = vec3(pow(blendWeight.x, blendSharpness), pow(blendWeight.y, blendSharpness), pow(blendWeight.z, blendSharpness));
	blendWeight /= (blendWeight.x + blendWeight.y + blendWeight.z);
	
	return colX * blendWeight.x + colY * blendWeight.y + colZ * blendWeight.z;
}

void vertex() {
	vertex_pos = VERTEX;
}

void fragment() {
	// Fresnel
	float fresnel_out = pow(fresnel - clamp(dot(NORMAL, VIEW), 0.0, fresnel), fresnel);

	vec2 waveOffsetA = vec2(TIME * waveSpeed, TIME * waveSpeed * 0.8);
	vec2 waveOffsetB = vec2(TIME * waveSpeed * - 0.8, TIME * waveSpeed * -0.3);
	vec2 result_offset = waveOffsetA + waveOffsetB;

	vec3 cloud_tex = triplanar_texture(vertex_pos, NORMAL, result_offset, voronoi_noise).rgb;
	vec3 cloud_tex_with_light = cloud_tex * vec3(Lightness_Difference);
	vec3 cloud_tex_with_light_with_color = cloud_tex_with_light * Sun_Color.rgb;
	vec3 cloud_tex_with_light_with_color_with_glow = vec3(Glow_Power) * cloud_tex_with_light_with_color;

	vec3 noise_tex = triplanar_texture(vertex_pos, NORMAL, result_offset, emission_noise).rgb;
	vec3 result = cloud_tex_with_light_with_color_with_glow * noise_tex;

	EMISSION = vec3(fresnel_out) * result;
}
Tags
planet, Solar, Sun
The shader code and all code snippets in this post are under GNU GPL v.3 license and can be used freely. Images and videos, and assets depicted in those, do not fall under this license. For more info, see our License terms.

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Gabriel
Gabriel
2 years ago

Awesome!

Kolosso
Kolosso
2 years ago

Well done!

MDIVS
2 years ago

Awesome!

Dünya
Dünya
1 year ago

Very nice shader sir!