Re: [Plib-devel] desperate plea for help (SKYBOX)

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:

> Right now I'm implimenting a sky dome (this is for a flight
> simulator.)  But it would be interesting to add a skybox option
> sometime as well.

This sounds like a way cool thing that ought to be distributed
with PLIB somehow since a large fraction of SSG programs must
need this kind of thing.  For example, my Tux game 'draws' the
sky with a simple screen clear - it would be cool if it could
have clouds and stars and stuff too - but not cool enough to
make me want to go out and write the code to do it!

If there were a simple couple-of-lines setup command to build
a sky and then a one line per-frame update command, it would
be something I could imagine nearly everyone using.

It seems somehow wrong to bloat the SSG core library with this
kind of thing - perhaps an SSG utility library is needed to collect
such useful things.

I've been having thoughts of playing with other handy 'utility'
modules such as the movement/collision code in Tux_AQFH.

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