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CCloudSceneNode - clouds with levels of detail
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:24 pm
by bitplane
My second custom scene node attempt- a cloud node that supports recursive levels of detail
more info here
if you want more detail, cloudnode->setLOD(10)
keep setMaxDepth pretty low, or risk stack overflows (adding children is recursive)
particle affectors are not supported yet, and its cpu and gpu intensive up close!
if someone wants to make nice cloud generating functions, post them here and I'll add them in. a cloud editor would be ideal, but until then you've got one ugly cloud to play with!
Thanks to mm765 for helping me on irc
Enjoy!
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:14 pm
by niko
Looks nice. With another skybox (without painted clouds on it) and white clouds instead of black ones, the demo would look a lot more impressive.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:06 pm
by dawasw
Very Nice !
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:17 am
by brc-not-logged
I saw this on IRC and really liked it, but I feel your not doing it justice. For the demo you should have a blue sky box with a few clouds and no mountains, then make a small terrain scene node and then put white clouds so we can see what it looks like from the players point of view
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:28 am
by bitplane
glad to see you all like it
looks like everyone won't be happy til they see white fluffy ones eh?
A new random cloud is now generated after the last one has rotated 180 degrees.
I can't get it working in irrlicht 0.11 though, the same thing happens as when a mesh isn't on the screen in 0.10. anyone have any idea what that might be?
I'm debugging again, so I didn't bother putting a terrain in there yet. I'll post an update when I've got them rolling over a landscape
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:10 am
by bitplane
okay, here it is... faster than before but still a cpu hog.
much nicer eh? I updated the demo
oh yeah, irr 0.10 only because of the alpha bug.. roll on 0.12
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:13 am
by omaremad
that last shot looks real photo
would be better if u didnt make it such a cold rainy day
just joking
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:16 pm
by puh
Very promising! Is it possible linear movement of the [infinite] clouds not rotation?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:00 pm
by Robomaniac
very Very nice
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:31 am
by etcaptor
I like it and will waiting for a new updates.
@bitplane, by me your class can be used not only for clouds, but and for some another effects
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:43 am
by niko
Wow, the new demo really is impressive. Time for a flight simulator using irrlicht
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:47 pm
by Cleves
I can't download the source from some reason. I think the download is dead.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:58 pm
by bal
I'd love to see this in action but the archive is corrupt here.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:50 pm
by MikeR
Since people are having problems with the download,
I have mirrored it.
download rar format
download zip format
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:48 pm
by Cleves
Thanks for mirroring it:)