A question for #Graphics programmers out there! I'm rendering clouds using two quad meshes used as height maps, one for the top and a flipped one for the bottom. Height is sampled and applied in the vertex shader. Wherever the height becomes negative, the fragment shader discards the pixel.

The problem is that this gives a seam of 2 pixels wide between the two meshes. I suspect it's because Godot uses dFdx/dFdy and those don't work when a neighbouring fragment is discarded.

Any ideas?

I should not be hacking on cloud shaders when I'm tired. Weird stuff tends to happen.

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What, two new blog posts in two weeks?! I'm spoiling y'all!

Here's how I made a procedural night sky in the style of my game's art, complete with stars, Milky Way and moon:
https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/7/21/around-the-world-32-its-full-of-stars/

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I learned to stay away from inherited scenes in #GodotEngine years ago, because they were a buggy mess and would randomly lose data or corrupt your scenes.

Just now I decided to give it another try, and less than an hour in, with a very simple setup, another scene corruption. So it hasn't improved much 🙁 Yay for version control.

I love #Godot but this area could use some more love. Unfortunately I don't have the time or energy right now for a proper minimal reproduction case or issue report…