Ground Fog!, without shaders.

[NOiZE]

So where can we download this gadget :D

[user]

currently it is not released, because i recently started working on it.

one thing that would be cool is those mist maps with "bridges" below the fog to the other islands.

[user]

to fix that issue i posted before, i will make only one, or maybe none, fog quads get drawn well looking from below, only the sphere, it will look good.

[user]

posted a bunch of new screens, some from inside the fog, this means it won't look bad anymore when seen from inside.

the first 4 are all in the same area.

this means it is almost done.

[NOiZE]

as a gadget?

[user]

no, but porting it to lua gaia is very easy, i just need to add a few things to this, then it is done, after it is done i make it into a gadget, then release.

[NOiZE]

Great!, well then ill got work todo again ~~

[user]

almost forgot to post:

this doesn't lags much, i had a bunch of programs running when i took those screens.

this can be easily configured to lower lag even more, by lowering the amount of fog layers being drawn, on the screens i had usually 32 to 96
layers, the last 9 screens all had 48 layers.

[user]

currently this draws fog that looks like trepan fog, but is better than it.

it can have the color, height, switched.

have i forgot anything that should be added?

[user]

made the first test version of the true fog that i said i would make.

i will post a screen later, it looks bad at the moment.

i think the first version of the ground fog is done for now, i will release it later, after i convert it to gadget.

[BlueTemplar]

Can you have the fog (partially) obscure radar readings?

[user]

no, lua can't control radar, or LOS.

[BlueTemplar]

It's a shame, really. Would have made for interesting games... maybe we should make a feature request? It could also be used with tall grass/forest/levitating orange blobs of strange shape...

[user]

it would be cool, since currently if you get a unit flying above very dense fog, it will be able to see and attack the units below correctly, which is unrealistic.

[Sheekel]

Could this possibly made so that it obscures the players view? Then we could have OTA style fog of war! Shouldnt be too hard to implement, just need 3dimensional cell indicating areas on the map that are marked as hidden or visible

[user]

some ways to make it:

1. massive rewrite, well?.
2. GLSL?
3. textures?
4. texture generation?

look here, it is used a lot by trepan shaders

we also have gl.CopyToTexture, to copy a transparent texture to the areas being seen.

maybe such a thing could be a project for later.

by the way, we have bit operations in lua now.

[Forboding Angel]

is the fog alpha adjustable?

[user]

this is around 84.5% to 89.6% customizable, no kidding.

[user]

i haven't posted it before, because i didn't had time.

here, someone convert it to a gadget:

by the way, i hope to see some awesome screens with this soon.

[Argh]

Excellent, I'll get to that tonight...