[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] 3D Clouds update

[Stuart B. <stu...@ya...>]

Hi All,

I've been doing some work to improve the 3D clouds.

As well as a variety of bug fixes, improvements include:-
- A new XML format
- Texture indexing based on the position of the sprite in the cloud-mass, allowing more control over the texture set.
- Improved fog and shading
- Better sprite distribution
- A more natural distribution of clouds, so no more obvious grids.

Most of the improvements can be seen in the Cu and Ac cloud types, but the stratus clouds have been improved as well.

A patch is available here: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.tar.gz

Once it is applied, I'll update the appropriate README documentation myself.

Comments are welcome as always.

-Stuart