Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved 3D Clouds patch ( further invesigations )

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:38:18 +0000 (GMT), Stuart wrote in message 
<473...@we...>:

> Heiko Schulz wrote:
> 
> > I began with making new cloud textures and shaping via xml.
> > Creating clouds is easier than I thought though it is a lot of
> > work- like building an aircraft! ;-)
> > 
> > Here is a video featuring the 3d-clouds with new textures. I need
> > still work on shaping and creating the other cloud types- in the
> > moment I have only Cumulus:
> > 
> > http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=li8nb3rGuHA
> > 
> > Unfortunately the video is too compressed- It still needed an hour
> > for upload and another one for processing...
> 
> They look fantastic !

..aye, just one li'l thing, shouldn't the other 2 planes vanish in the
denser clouds?  I've seen wings 'n engines disappear in cloudy hide 'n
seek, can happen several times a second.

> Thanks for taking the time to improve them. Could you make them
> available for check-in?
> 
> BTW I have been working on some minor code improvements for the 3D
> clouds:
> - placing the sprites on a sphere rather than a cylinder (a code bug)
> - Only checking for repositioning of the cloud layer every 60 frames.
> - Improving the culling heuristic to remove sprites that are too
> close together.
> - Performing better shading of the bottom of the cloud.
> 
> None of these things should affect the work you have been doing.
> 
> I hope to get these checked in soon - but the weather today is nice
> so I'm going out to fly my microlight first. I'll make sure to take
> some photos of clouds!
> 
> -Stuart


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