What does a weather simulation game need?
Pretty clouds!
Programming a ray-marched atmosphere with dynamic clouds which work from space down to the ground has been great fun!

I just wanted to record a timelapse of the effects of increasing co2 levels on my simulated planet..... however maybe, just maybe, i made the fires a bit ..to aggressive. They probably should not engulf all the planets' forests at once after a few months....😱
Good thing it's just a simulation 🫠

It's kind of crazy to me that while most societies tax waste (water, industrial, general waste), no one considers #CO2 as a waste product...yet its detrimental effects on the #environment become clearer with every passing year.

Even an imperfect weather simulation can produce some pretty mesmerizing wind patterns on a high-altitude mountain range 🤩

I found a new appreciation for the importance of energy conservation in numerical simulations; My home-brewed global circulation model always showed a drift in global temperature, even without any external energy exchange via radiation. This made the simulation of climate effects....challenging....

It’s crazy how fast modern CPUs have become. My gracefully ageing i7-6700K has no problems calculating up to around 1 million(!) vertex positions practically in real time for procedural terrain generation.

Hi everyone! I’m creating a planet-scale climate strategy simulation game, where a simplified global circulation model constantly runs to simulate the weather. It all plays on a procedurally generated alien planet which requires climate engineering to make it hospitable.