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Re: Why do people like fog?
Posted By: Forrest of B.orgDate: 3/11/05 2:34 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Why do people like fog? (•M)

: Actually, it is realistic :)
: The fog on earth is for human purpose like a big wide but flat layer.
: Looking straight ahead you peer through it's lenght and you sight gets
: diminished. Looking straight up (and the skytexture is mapped on a sphere,
: roughly speeking) you see through a rather short distance before the stars
: start peeking out.

Which is why Steve is saying it's unrealistic the way Marathon does it. It fills the entire volume equally, so looking up could be looking through the same distance as looking ahead.

It seems like it'd be a pretty simple engine change to simulate "settled" fog. Give the fog a simple gradient: more transparent toward the top of the world, more opaque toward the bottom. That way, at least looking up at the sky you would be able to see stars, etc.

If possible, continue the fog effect infinitely through landscape textures. That way, it automatically generates "fog bank" at and below the horizon line, which grows more transparent in the sky above.

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why I can't get fog working?Nicholai 3/8/05 5:29 p.m.
     Re: why I can't get fog working?Johannes Gunnar 3/8/05 9:44 p.m.
     Re: why I can't get fog working?C Lund 3/8/05 11:57 p.m.
           osx resource editors?Johannes Gunnar 3/9/05 12:35 a.m.
                 Re: osx resource editors?C Lund 3/9/05 12:03 p.m.
                       Re: osx resource editors?Johannes Gunnar 3/9/05 10:11 p.m.
                             Re: osx resource editors?C Lund 3/9/05 11:52 p.m.
                                   Re: osx resource editors?Johannes Gunnar 3/10/05 12:30 a.m.
                                   Re: osx resource editors?Forrest of B.org 3/10/05 7:41 a.m.
           Tags on the forums again...Forrest of B.org 3/9/05 8:33 a.m.
                 What about Russia?RussoEnt 3/11/05 5:41 p.m.
                       sigh... this is a marathon (vg) forum you **** *NM*Johannes Gunnar 3/12/05 2:03 a.m.
                       Commies! *NM*Bob-B-Q 3/12/05 4:26 a.m.
                             Re: Commies!RedMage13 3/14/05 4:59 p.m.
                                   Re: Commies!Forrest of B.org 3/15/05 8:10 a.m.
                                         Re: Commies!RedMage13 3/17/05 2:25 p.m.
                                               Re: Commies!Forrest of B.org 3/17/05 2:48 p.m.
                                                     Ummm Irony.... *NM*blake37 3/17/05 2:59 p.m.
                                                           Re: Ummm Irony....Forrest of B.org 3/17/05 11:06 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Ummm Irony....blake37 3/18/05 10:48 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Ummm Irony....Forrest of B.org 3/18/05 12:24 p.m.
     Why do people like fog?blake37 3/9/05 11:56 a.m.
           Re: Why do people like fog?C Lund 3/9/05 12:08 p.m.
                 Re: Why do people like fog?blake37 3/9/05 12:20 p.m.
                       Re: Why do people like fog?tcm 3/9/05 12:36 p.m.
                 The Rose in M1A1 - nice atmosphere *NM*Steve Levinson 3/9/05 6:28 p.m.
                 Re: Why do people like fog?Nicholai 3/10/05 1:21 p.m.
                       like i said, as in turok. *NM*tcm 3/10/05 1:37 p.m.
                 Re: Why do people like fog?Forrest of B.org 3/10/05 3:47 p.m.
                       Re: Why do people like fog?C Lund 3/10/05 11:28 p.m.
                             Re: Why do people like fog?Forrest of B.org 3/11/05 10:45 a.m.
                                   Re: Why do people like fog?Johannes Gunnar 3/11/05 11:38 a.m.
                                   Re: Why do people like fog?Steve Levinson 3/11/05 12:43 p.m.
                                         Re: Why do people like fog?•M 3/11/05 12:52 p.m.
                                               Re: Why do people like fog?Forrest of B.org 3/11/05 2:34 p.m.
                                   Re: Why do people like fog?C Lund 3/12/05 12:38 a.m.
                                         Re: Why do people like fog?Nicholai 3/12/05 9:53 a.m.
                                               Re: Why do people like fog?C Lund 3/13/05 5:04 a.m.
                                                     Re: Why do people like fog?Speaker-To-Animals 3/13/05 6:23 p.m.
                                                           Re: Why do people like fog?Nicholai 3/13/05 7:41 p.m.
                             How do you vary the fog denisty in a level?Blayne 3/18/05 5:41 a.m.
                                   Re: How do you vary the fog denisty in a level?Forrest of B.org 3/18/05 7:59 a.m.
                                         Re: How do you vary the fog denisty in a level?Speaker-To-Animals 3/21/05 6:30 p.m.
                       Re: Why do people like fog?Speaker-To-Animals 3/13/05 6:27 p.m.

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