On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Renk Thorsten wrote: > It has emerged from forum discussions that gathering the goals for developers > so that people can synchronize efforts better and users know what to expect > would be a good idea. I've sort of been trying to do that previously, so I > might as well continue, even if it's a bit early and 2.10 isn't rolling out > yet. > > My project goals till a 3.0 release are: > > * Get a high-quality model shader running under Atmospheric Light Scattering > > Pretty straightforward, has been requested a number of times, it's on the > agenda and I hope to have it in the next month
That's great news, and feeds into one of my goals (see below). > * Implement a scheme for generating autumn colors procedurally > > I'm currently on that by encoding the amount of autumn color rotation in the > texture alpha channel - some proof of principle here: > > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=18580 > > There are still open questions how to do trees efficiently (I would like to > switch to the autumn version of trees at some point, but I don't know how to > do this without always loading both sheets. It'd be way more efficient to > simply color-rotate the tree texture sheet, but then I don't know how to > discriminate needle trees on the mixed forest sheet) and lots of detail work > needs to be done, but I expect that we'll soon be able to generate lots of > different seasonal and environment-influenced themes from the same basic > texture set. It'll never be as good as creating dediicated autumn textures, > but... it smoothy interpolates between summer and autumn. One idea I used with the 3D clouds was to use the position of the texture in the texture sheet to encode additional information. In that case, cloud textures at the bottom of the sheet are used for the bottom of the clouds. Perhaps we could use something similar for the trees? I.e. pass in a uniform indicating which fraction of the texture sheet on the x-axis should be color-rotated. The uniform can be taken from a property on the material definition. > * Atmospheric light scattering and Rembrandt > > After thinking about this for a while, I have decided that I am definitely > not going to do this on my own. Being maintainer of one major rendering > scheme and one weather system is quite enough to keep me busy, and it's not > something which is very close to my heart. However, if there is a decision > that there is going to be a team effort making this work, I will join it and > do my part. I'm very keen that the atmospheric light scattering and procedural effects are merged fully into both the "classic" and Rembrandt renderers, and would absolutely be part of any team effort to make it happen. I'd really like to get to a position where the Atmospheric Lighting checkbox in the Rendering dialog can be removed, as the elements of the atmospheric renderer are simply part of the classic and Rembrandt rendering schemes. As part of that I think I need to make some changes to the Basic Weather to populate the appropriate properties. Thorsten - are the properties documented anywhere? Other than that I don't have any significant plans for the next release, though I do have some small projects in mind: - Improvements to the A-4F - Improving random building placement. While it looks OK for towns, buildings aren't placed very well in cities. - AI Tanker enhancements to allow users to select from a range of tanker models. This is particularly relevant for naval probe-equipped aircraft, where there is a much greater variety of tanker types. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
