DDS cube-maps!!!

DDS cubemaps are uploading now to svn. They have a .cube extension. I took out the Tarsus for a quick stroll.
What's still missing, that Klauss is working on, is LOD bias control (blurriness of reflections) by material gloss;
so right now everything looks totally glossy.
But anyhow, the glass bubble on the mining base is made of glass or something like glass, which is supposed
to be glossy; and look how much better the reflections look on it, with cubemaps instead of spheremaps...
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So, the dds cubemaps are in, but the engine code and shaders not yet.
The one HUGE problem I see is that we can't commit the shaders without a new Windows binary...
Can we?
I'll have to upload a modified high end shader with a new name, I guess.

wow, the glass looks really good. but are the other structures supposed to be that reflective as well?

No; as I said; that's what Klauss is working on now.Reflective? yes;
Glossy? no.
What looks right, right now, is the glossy glass

ah, I see.

What I wanted to show off is not so much the material characterization, which is broken; but
the quality of the reflections. Before they were pixelated and artifactful and low quality; now
they show lots of resolution ("texture"), and a fairly even pixel stride.