Hi,
> Hi All, > > After a lot of effort, and help from Tim, I've finally > got some 3D shader-based clouds that work acceptably: > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg > > A patch is available from here: > http:/www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.tar.gz > Very nice- thanks for that! Happy to have 3d-clouds back! > I've put quite a bit of effort into making the clouds > as configurable as possible. The cloudlayers.xml file should > allow any cloud-artists to create much prettier clouds than > I have managed. Great- so hopefully there will be soon not only livery-artists! ;-) > There are quite a few bugs to be ironed out:- > 1) The cloud grid should shift when the camera moves out of > range, to simulate and infinite set of clouds. This > doesn't work very well ATM. ATM = At the moment? > 2) Currently the only well-defined clouds are cu's > (used in the Fair Weather scenario). Better clouds need to > be defined for all the other types. This should be possible > with some new textures and editing of cloudlayer.xml Textures not really a problem, shaping maybe more... Is it possible with still fair fps to have a full cloud cover like we have when it is raining, thunderstorm etc.? > 3) The alpha-blending isn't working properly > 4) Rolling the camera while pointing vertically down on the > cloud causes rotation of the texture. > 5) The clouds are bit too transparent at medium distances. Are 3.) and 5.) texture issues? I notice on the screenshot a borderline around each cloud part... > > Nevertheless, I think it would be worth committing the code > with these bugs present, if only so other people can have a > look and comment. :) Can't test it in the moment, but would like it to see in CVS! > Thanks to Tim and also Heiko who provided some nice cloud > textures. No problem- Can't wait to do some more an better ones! > -Stuart > Cheers HHS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
