Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Clouds - progress report

2008-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
I tried the imposters/billboards patch fro 3d clouds but didn't get the problem you reported. It does make flightgear dog-slow however, 1 or 2 fps maximum. I played a bit with the rendering options but none of the options did make any difference in frame rate (not even setting the cloud settin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Clouds - progress report

2008-10-05 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Stuart, On Saturday 04 October 2008 15:45:07 Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Here's a current screenshot showing my progress: > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg > Looks great! I really hope we can include some 3D clouds in the next release. Keep up the good work. :-) Cheers, Durk

[Flightgear-devel] 3D Clouds - progress report

2008-10-04 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, As I mentioned in my mail yesterday, I'm taking another look at 3D clouds. Rather than using Impostors, I instead looked at what I could do by using GPU shaders - basically offloading as much processing onto the graphics card as possible. This worked very well for the random-forests, wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Aug 2008, at 15:32, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > I did consider it, but given the problems I've had simply trying to > port the existing code, I felt it was too much of a challenge for > the moment. Seems like a classic thing to investigate (along with about a hundred other potential gr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread Heiko Schulz
> Von: John Wojnaroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report· > An: "FlightGear developers discussions" > > Datum: Samstag, 9. August 2008, 16:16 > gerard robin wrote: > > >On sam 9 août 2008,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
Stuart Buchanan wrote: >--- On Sat, 9/8/08, John Wojnaroski wrote: > > >>just 2 more cts. >> >>if you're porting to OSG why not consider Mark >>Harris' cloud code? far >>superior in texture, appearance, extendibility, >>transparency, lighting, >>etc, etc,might require a tad more work but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- On Sat, 9/8/08, John Wojnaroski wrote: > just 2 more cts. > > if you're porting to OSG why not consider Mark > Harris' cloud code? far > superior in texture, appearance, extendibility, > transparency, lighting, > etc, etc,might require a tad more work but IMHO the > results are > worth

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
gerard robin wrote: >On sam 9 août 2008, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > > >>Hi Stuart! >> >>Stuart Buchanan wrote: >> >> >>>Just to keep everyone up to date on where I am with porting 3D clouds to >>>FG OSG: >>> >>>http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg >>> >>>Obviously there is still a lot o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread gerard robin
On sam 9 août 2008, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi Stuart! > > Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > Just to keep everyone up to date on where I am with porting 3D clouds to > > FG OSG: > > > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg > > > > Obviously there is still a lot of work to be done before they are >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi Stuart! Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Just to keep everyone up to date on where I am with porting 3D clouds to FG > OSG: > > http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg > > Obviously there is still a lot of work to be done before they are complete, > but progress is being made. Doesn't look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
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[Flightgear-devel] 3D clouds - progress report·

2008-08-09 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, Just to keep everyone up to date on where I am with porting 3D clouds to FG OSG: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/clouds.jpg Obviously there is still a lot of work to be done before they are complete, but progress is being made. I'm hoping that once I've completed the OSG part of t