Re: [Algorithms] The rain rendering indoor/outdoor problem

[Simon F. <sim...@po...>]

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> Behalf Of Francis Boivin
> Sent: 27 September 2007 18:39
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> Subject: [Algorithms] The rain rendering indoor/outdoor problem
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> Hello,
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> I was wondering if there was some "litterature" or tricks or=20
> the trade to get around the problem of rendering rain when=20
> your indoors and looking outside?  The problem being that you=20
> obviouslly still want to render rain, but you want it to=20
> appear as it it were outside.

Francis,

Could you use one bit of the stencil buffer? You could then render, say,
all the scene with the bit set, on say, the indoor polygons and clear on
the outdoor polys, and then render the rain after so that it's only
drawn where the bit is clear. Would that solve your problem?

Simon