Weather in AC
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(29 May 11, 06:36PM)Hellspell Wrote: also i dont think it would waste much fps, a white dot for snow or a short line for the rain i think would suffice
but an option to turn off the weather could do no harm

Dots/lines in the form of GL_POINTS and GL_LINES respectively will not work well. Neither has the ability to portray depth; a snowflake or raindrop made with a point or line will appear the same whether it is a centimeter from your face or a kilometer away.

You can use blend functions to alter the width of lines and size of points, but you'd need to calculate distances to cube surfaces and flip back and forth between varying specifications to properly simulate depth. And even then it'd be a shoddy effect. Line widths and point sizes are altered with the same function and are only available in pixel dimensions; snowflakes will either appear too small or too large and they will be square.

If that were a desirable trait the rendering process would indeed be very fast however the generation of depth information necessary to alter the width of lines and points would likely kill it.
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Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 29 May 11, 03:34PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Mael - 29 May 11, 03:38PM
RE: Idea for future update - by MykeGregory - 29 May 11, 03:55PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Cemer - 29 May 11, 06:13PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Nightmare - 29 May 11, 06:27PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Hellspell - 29 May 11, 06:36PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Cemer - 29 May 11, 06:38PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Mael - 29 May 11, 07:26PM
RE: Idea for future update - by macm - 29 May 11, 07:08PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Hellspell - 29 May 11, 07:50PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Nightmare - 29 May 11, 08:18PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Viper - 29 May 11, 08:39PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Mael - 29 May 11, 09:24PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Ronald_Reagan - 29 May 11, 10:48PM
RE: Idea for future update - by Cemer - 30 May 11, 02:21AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 30 May 11, 02:28PM
RE: Weather in AC - by vern - 30 May 11, 09:22PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Mael - 30 May 11, 10:00PM
RE: Weather in AC - by tempest - 30 May 11, 11:48PM
RE: Weather in AC - by vern - 31 May 11, 12:26PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Mael - 31 May 11, 05:44PM
RE: Weather in AC - by V-Man - 30 May 11, 09:24PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Cemer - 30 May 11, 09:43PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Mael - 31 May 11, 12:46AM
RE: Weather in AC - by gkaonicx72 - 31 May 11, 01:54AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Huntsman - 31 May 11, 02:22AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Cemer - 31 May 11, 02:30AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Lantry - 31 May 11, 03:00AM
RE: Weather in AC - by asthenia - 31 May 11, 10:16AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Fate - 31 May 11, 03:19PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Andrez - 31 May 11, 03:55PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Cemer - 12 Jun 11, 05:47PM
RE: Weather in AC - by VenteX - 14 Jun 11, 12:18AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 31 May 11, 05:28PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Viper - 31 May 11, 06:15PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Lantry - 01 Jun 11, 04:57AM
RE: Weather in AC - by PolarHedgehog - 02 Jun 11, 07:29AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 02 Jun 11, 10:31AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Bukz - 02 Jun 11, 01:20PM
RE: Weather in AC - by VenteX - 02 Jun 11, 03:58PM
RE: Weather in AC - by ExodusS - 02 Jun 11, 10:52PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 03 Jun 11, 12:08AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Bukz - 03 Jun 11, 12:27AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Mael - 03 Jun 11, 03:04AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Ronald_Reagan - 03 Jun 11, 03:05AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Bukz - 03 Jun 11, 03:19AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Leoi - 03 Jun 11, 03:20AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Viper - 03 Jun 11, 03:57AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Lantry - 03 Jun 11, 04:06AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Viper - 03 Jun 11, 04:30AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Ronald_Reagan - 03 Jun 11, 05:23AM
RE: Weather in AC - by [PSY]Legend - 04 Jun 11, 01:12PM
RE: Weather in AC - by VenteX - 10 Jun 11, 10:02PM
RE: Weather in AC - by MerCyKiL - 10 Jun 11, 06:15AM
RE: Weather in AC - by DES|Anderson - 12 Jun 11, 05:59PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Nightmare - 12 Jun 11, 07:02PM
RE: Weather in AC - by al3rt - 12 Jun 11, 08:42PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Ronald_Reagan - 13 Jun 11, 12:39AM
RE: Weather in AC - by al3rt - 13 Jun 11, 02:10PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Lantry - 14 Jun 11, 05:16AM
RE: Weather in AC - by al3rt - 14 Jun 11, 05:18PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 14 Jun 11, 05:24PM
RE: Weather in AC - by al3rt - 14 Jun 11, 08:57PM
RE: Weather in AC - by ExodusS - 15 Jun 11, 12:20AM
RE: Weather in AC - by jAcKRoCk* - 15 Jun 11, 03:43AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Viper - 15 Jun 11, 04:46AM
RE: Weather in AC - by MykeGregory - 15 Jun 11, 07:05PM
RE: Weather in AC - by V-Man - 16 Jun 11, 02:31AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Cemer - 16 Jun 11, 02:35AM
RE: Weather in AC - by V-Man - 18 Jun 11, 02:20PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Cemer - 18 Jun 11, 03:22PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 02 Jul 11, 09:39PM
RE: Weather in AC - by Hellspell - 17 Jul 11, 11:36AM
RE: Weather in AC - by Mike - 17 Jul 11, 08:05PM
RE: Weather in AC - by V-Man - 17 Jul 11, 10:45PM