If you have several smoke grenades in the same area you shouldn't see anomalies unless they have the same exact position, or your far clip to near clip ratio is too big. This would make the z-buffer stretched out, and depth tests to not be as accurate.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DC Fennell Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:44 PM To: Public OpenSceneGraph Users discussion list. Subject: Re: [osg-users] Particle Sorting Hello, What if you have several smoke grenades go off in one area, where the smoke of each intermingles with the smoke of the other? When moving around, one smoke grenade takes priority (because the drawable is sorted back to front in the transparent bin). All particles in that drawable are drawn and overlay other smoke which may be intermingled from the other smoke grenades. I'm not sure if my example makes sense or not. I trust you on the bin number, but I would rather not have to create separate bins if possible. In a large battle scene, explosions, smoke grenades, etc. can get messy trying to determine priorities. Having one particle system works, but it just seems like the wrong way to go about this. ----- Original Message ----- From: Zach Deedler <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Public OpenSceneGraph Users <mailto:[email protected]> discussion list.' Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [osg-users] Particle Sorting Playing around with bin number of your model may help you in this case. The default bin number of models is 10. If you set your explosion to 11 then your explosion will have priority when they are at the same position. This will get rid of the anomalies, and will look better. Trust me. You can take a look at osglogo for what to set in code, but I find it easier to do it inside the osg model (if that is what you are using). Models are prioritized by their group and not by polygon. I don't know of any better way to 'blend' particle systems. _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DC Fennell Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [osg-users] Particle Sorting Hello, I have several particle systems, which may be close to each other. Unless all particles emitted are grouped and sorted as one bucket, then drawn, I get visual anomalies. For example. If I have 3 smoke stacks (each a separate particle system) close together, and if an explosion occurs in the middle of the smoke stacks, it looks odd, i.e., the smoke effect may appear in front of the explosion instead if intermingled when the smoke overlaps, depending on your view. Running double pass does not help with this. The only solution I can think of is to use one particle system for all effects, then sort back to front. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance _____ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
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