David Megginson > Norman Vine writes: > > > I doubt if any amount of fiddling would make the 3D clouds work well in > > anything less then 32 bit color, as the eye is VERY sensitive to grey. > > I'm looking for work-at-all, not work-well. I don't care if they're > pretty, as long as I can scud around them.
Understood but .. The problem is there is not much room for an alpha chanel in 16 bits so AFAIK the card manufacturers and the OpenGL board aren't spending much effort making this kind of thing work well most 16 bit color is 5 6 5 bits respectivly for r g b to get any alpha this goes to 4 4 4 4, or 4 5 4 3 < the eye is more sensitive to green > neither of these makes a picture that helps sell more gfx cards ..... My guess is if you value your time at all, it would be cheaper and far less frutrating to trade up to a newer computer or .... just drop your resolution back down to what you card can handle at 32 bit color when you want volumetric rendering Note these things by their very nature BURN fill rate Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
