> The LoD is currently hardcoded to 20km, so if visibility > 20km, it > kicks in > before the transparency effect. > > I have a good fix that takes into account the current visibility as part > of > the Impostors work, but that won't be available until after the release. > > In the meantime, I can increase the LoD range to (say) 40km. However, > there will probably be some performance penalty. > > What's the maximum visibility that the Local Weather package uses?
We used to have 45 km range out to which clouds were shown. With the new more efficient system, I have made tests with 75 km (which is enough for a good impression even from airliner cruise altitude), see here: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/pics/local-weather-next05.jpg The penalty for having this is not so severe as compared with other goodies (it's cheaper than the terrain haze for instance). Technically, tile generation is tied to actual visibility. The max. visibility the system generates at high altitude is 140 km or a user-specified maximum, whichever is lower, so cloud positions are computed at most out to 80 km or so. Clouds are shown out to the same distance as normal 3d clouds since they are subject to the same distance slider. If you hard-code some lower number for the release, please let me know where to change it so that I can go back to my extended layer testing. * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
