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[ReD NeCKersoN]

I've been playing around with FOG some in recent weeks. Here's a sample of what it can look like.


Fog Test video - ReD_NeCKersoN - Mod DB

[RailedRobin]

Looks good Red! Would be awesome to play on a foggy map

[Holliday DDS]

That looks pretty sweet. Is it possible to do patchy fog or even ground fog?

[ReD NeCKersoN]

Patchy fog = I'm pretty sure the answer is no.
Ground fog = yes, though I've yet to figure out how to make it look good.

[SmokeyBacon]

That looks fabulous! One thing which always struck me in SG was the lack of weather. On lake and possibly also on backwater this fog would be a great addition.

[ReD NeCKersoN]

How to make this in my own map?

http://members.lycos.co.uk/quakeroats/l ... oghull.htm

Does the word under the stairs in the map Hang'em High mean "RED WAZ HERE"???

Yes, it means "RED WAS HERE."

[Breli]

Hi,

I fooled around with fog a couple of years ago. Performance was terrible back then ... how is it now?

Cheers

Breli

[Black Jack Ketchum]

The vid looks really nice, I to whold like to have more whether, its after all we Swedes' favorite conversation topic

Adding fog to a map like Backwater would make it harder to camp, both good and bad. its good to have a way to hinder campers whiteout alter the actual map, but as always camping will be part of gaming (i don't want to start a camping=god or camping=bad discussion here)

[/dev/random]

I fooled around with fog a couple of years ago. Performance was terrible back then

Shouldn't performance be improved, since foghulls are a kind of clipping?

[Breli]

it should, yes, but the engine has to render the fog ... tradeoff thing, and our engine is not really top notch technology

[Pardner]

Shouldn't performance be improved, since foghulls are a kind of clipping?

The fog in Q3 and SG does not always function as a foghull. It needs to be inabled in the shader as shown in the link Red posted. In fact, I think the vQ3 fog shaders were not foghull (could be wrong, I just don't remember seeing those parms in the shader before).

[ReD NeCKersoN]

I haven't been able to get FOGHULL working. The sample in my video is just a fog effect, without the FOGHULL.
Funny thing though... when I move far away enough for the trees to disappear from view my fps goes up very noticeably. But If I check r_showtris 1 I can see that the engine is still rendering the geometry. Very odd.

On the plus side, even if I never get FOGHULL working, I can just set the trees to disappear when needed thanks to Joe Kari's patch seen here:
viewtopic.php?t=1510

[EvilFutsin]

So we can do a Mannaja map? YAY!