On samedi 25 octobre 2008, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi All, > > After a lot of effort, and help from Tim, I've finally got some 3D > shader-based clouds that work acceptably: > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg > > A patch is available from here: > http:/www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.tar.gz > > I've put quite a bit of effort into making the clouds as configurable as > possible. The cloudlayers.xml file should allow any cloud-artists to create > much prettier clouds than I have managed. > > There are quite a few bugs to be ironed out:- > 1) The cloud grid should shift when the camera moves out of range, to > simulate and infinite set of clouds. This doesn't work very well ATM. 2) > Currently the only well-defined clouds are cu's (used in the Fair Weather > scenario). Better clouds need to be defined for all the other types. This > should be possible with some new textures and editing of cloudlayer.xml 3) > The alpha-blending isn't working properly > 4) Rolling the camera while pointing vertically down on the cloud causes > rotation of the texture. 5) The clouds are bit too transparent at medium > distances. > > Nevertheless, I think it would be worth committing the code with these bugs > present, if only so other people can have a look and comment. :) > > Thanks to Tim and also Heiko who provided some nice cloud textures. > > -Stuart
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