I've managed to adapt the model ubershader for Atmospheric Light Scattering in the last few days. The results look pretty nice (performance consumption is probably not so nice though):
http://users.jyu.fi/~trenk/pics/IAR80-sunrise.jpg So now we can have atmospheric light scattering skydome, ground fog, sunrise light and in addition nice airplane reflection and bump effects. The files are now with Emilian for some more testing, but should appear on GIT soon. The fine print is: This is the *only* model shader effect I will support because maintaining the framework is a lot of work, and every shader adds to the load. This isn't a limitation for what we can do, as model-combined.eff can, as far as I know, do everything one would like to do with a model, i.e. it has reflection map, dirt map, normal map and light map. But it means airplane creators have to use this effect rather than reflect.eff or reflect-bump-spec.eff (or what other combinations we have) for this to work, so if the plane doesn't declare model-combined.eff, it will still not work in atmospheric light scattering. Even for planes which do declare this effect, normal mapping still requires to generate tangents and binormals, and the <generate> tag resides airplane-side. So airplane-side, a <generate>-statement with a technique number 4 has to be added as well (apparently it can't be done effect side as FG crashes when the mapping is not properly defined, I don't know details). So, like Rembrandt, making model shading work in Atmospheric Light Scattering requires action from airplane maintainers, I can't do all that's needed, and it doesn't work out of the box. Please consider updating airplanes as soon as the shader arrives on GIT! * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
