Andy Ross writes: > Spotlights, and OpenGL lights in general, only work at vertices.
Is there an opengl extension that would allow the spot light to work per pixel rather than per vertex? It seems like I've heard of something, but I haven't investigated myself. > I think Roman's suggestion is the right one -- you would generate the > light pattern as a texture and apply it projectively as the second > texture pass on "nearby" tiles. This really wouldn't be so hard, I > suspect. Multitexture on modern hardware is essentially free. This would be interesting, especially since you could fake the lense patterns of the lights. Using a spot light (even if it worked as you'd hope) would almost be a little too perfect. We'd also need to draw the light beam near the aircraft in foggy conditions. Would love to see a 747 dropping out of the soup from the tower view with it's lights blazing through the fog. That probably wouldn't be too hard to do, and could even be done as an animation as part of the model. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
