[Drew]

Originally posted by DaBrain
It looks like this with fog enabled:

kinda shows FS2's pissy clipping work

[Grug]

Awsome!

So how are the landscapes done anyways?
Just giant models Yeah?

Be cool if they implemented it in to the physics engine. So you could have near true air fight physics, where its possible to stall etc.

Great work guys.

[DaBrain]

Hehe, that's a secret.
I think I'd only tell the guys from TI because they also shared their knowledge with us.

Seriously, Omni mad it, so I think I shouldn't give away his ideas.
There is some great thinking in this stuff.

[Omniscaper]

Danke

Now that you all have seen this, I now must kill you all.

[DaBrain]

Huh, where are you from?


It took me much effort to write some rather complex things in english.

Don't tell me I could have done this in german...

[Grug]

lol.

*Runs off and hides*

[MetalDestroyer]

Oh mama ! you did good job .

[DaBrain]

The water is now animated and takes up 28 MB of you gfx ram....





I think we can fix this.


Edit: Meh, it's hard to notice with the pics like this...

[Bobboau]

try useing two layers of texture with two diferent (very short) number of frames, and diferent frame rates. give the bottom layer a strong environment map effect and the top alpha based transparency.

[DaBrain]

Oh, great idea.

I'll use one layer with animated (dds) tiles. That should be good for the memory and the detail.

I think I'll run some tests tomorrow.

[Ulala]

*withdraws back into the shadows*

[Krackers87]

wow, are those 3d explosions? could it be possible this long implemented feature is seeing some use at last?

*crosses fingers*

[DaBrain]

Nope, no 3d explosion.

I tried it first, but it didn't look soog enough for my taste.

I might try it again after some stuff is complete. With a glowpoint it might look ok. I prefer the EFF.

[Grug]

At first glance I thought it was a 3d explosion too. But you can see the clipping with the 'ground'.

BTW, how do you animate your explosions, and generally any eff?
Frame by Frame? or some animation tool?

[DaBrain]

Yup, EFF. Mostly frame by frame.
I only sue ANI if it really looks better and even then only for things that won't affect the performance too much.

[Grug]

Hmm, I should put more effort into my eff animations then. At the moment most are placeholders, but I think with a little patience I can work them through.

Oh, and approximately how many frames do you use in each explosion?

[Flipside]

Looking nice!

I see I'm going to have to get back to my deserts.....

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Grug
Hmm, I should put more effort into my eff animations then. At the moment most are placeholders, but I think with a little patience I can work them through.

Oh, and approximately how many frames do you use in each explosion?

nova_explosion.eff

$Type: DDS
$Frames: 101
$FPS: 24