Galileo - WebGL Planet Renderer 🌐

Lightweight planet renderer with continuous level of detail

Todo

• Implement other types of splittable spheres (QuadSphere done)
• Add vegetation (and cities?)
• Support smooth shading
• Fix backface culling
• Fix mipmaps
• Better frustum culling
• Text rendering
• Support multiple lights
• Add planet type diversity
• Add Wireframe mode
• Optimize the amount of vertices in memory depending on the LOD
• Fix alpha blending issues
• Compute TBN vectors on the CPU using transform feedback

Resources

Continuous Distance-Dependent Level of Detail for Rendering Heightmaps

Robert Linder's blog