Posted March 06, 2018 by Karn Bianco
Just a quick update today. I added clouds and rain to the game! The clouds orbit the planetoids just like the sun does, and you can interact with them in a similar way, by dragging or flinging it around its orbit. But you can also tap the cloud to start/stop it raining. Eventually this will be crucial to helping your plants grow, but for now it just turns them blue to show that everything is working!
I also made some modifications to the island planetoid model. I've been playing around with lighting and graphics settings trying to see what would work well going forward, but the models I've created so far are too simplistic so it was like trying to polish a... well, something very difficult to polish. So I think I'll focus on improving models before revisiting lighting and shading styles and the like again.