Tim I played with 3D clouds patch in my sandbox and forgive me if I'm not familiar with whole flightgear/simgear system. Now I try modify existing code of 3Dclouds to pointsprite usage. Roman
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:23 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved 3D Clouds patch (further invesigations) Roman Grigoriev wrote: > Hi Stuart! > Thanx for your greatest 3D clouds patch > Works great but I find something that can totally eliminate glitches -> > Z-buffer precision. > So if I have near/far zones to 0.01/7000 I have glitches, but when I .01 is really not a reasonable near-plane value. Having said that, there is some code to deal with Z-plane precision problems (ViewPartitionNode), so I'm surprised that we're seeing such a problem. I confess I haven't had time yet to check out the cloud effects or the code, and I'm glad others have gone ahead and committed the patches... Tim > modified to 10/7000 all glitches are gone. > Maybe we should render only clouds with high z-buffer precision using FBO > and then paste it to all world? > Also my suggestion is using point sprites because we use only 1 vertex. > Thanx in advance > Bye > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved 3D Clouds patch > > Heiko Schulz wrote: >> For now I which a bit more documentation about making the cloudshapes. >> I did understand that there are layers with Boxes with a set of clouds. >> But I have problems with these coordinates: >> >> <box> >> <x>3200</x> >> <y>0</y> >> <z>2400</z> >> <type>st-large</type> >> </box> >> >> and grid sizes. > > I've checked in a new data/Docs/README.3DClouds, which should explain how > the cloudlayers.xml file works. Please let me know if any of it is unclear. > > Thanks very much for all the feedback and help everyone has provided in the > past week. I've been humbled by the help and encouragement everyone has > shown, > and the 3D clouds have improved greatly due to this. A superb example of FG > community development at its best! > > Best regards to all, > > -Stuart > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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