post-2.0.4 addition

Post by **trepan** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:27 am

A foggy day in LouMan's Metropolis.

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:05 am

pretty =)

..reminds mee of toronto in march ... bethesda in november ..or seattle , any time of the year ;)

even a rainy foggy bz day is a good day ;)

Saturos · Post by **Saturos** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:06 am

Wow. I am stunned!

Great work.

Edit: Now we have fog, rain, snow, sunshine + day and night. IF it would be possible to change the weather in realtime without restarting the server, somebody could write a plugin which grabs the actual weather of the server-location from weather.com and synchronizes the server-weather with it. *dreaming*

Post by **trepan** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:38 am

Saturos:

Fog, rain, snow, sunshine, day, and night...
these are all controlled by BZDB variables.
Bzadmin can set the values remotely from
a script without having to restart the server,
or you could use a server plugin.

NOTE:
Like the mirror and rain, this feature was
setup so that it can be disabled client-side.

^nightmare^ · Post by **^nightmare^** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:35 pm

cool, i didnt think they would actually add this!
Awsome screeny though.

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:57 pm

wow, nice map....

eagle · Post by **eagle** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:50 pm

that is soooooooooo cool*faint*

dartman · Post by **dartman** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:48 pm

Nothing else forom me but:

..................

Oh, wait--dangit.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:47 am

Here's a shot of another nifty recent change:

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:33 am

whoo, thats awesome dtr.i thought 2.0.3 would be fine, now i see it wont....

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:04 am

Wow! This stuff is just amazing!

Is this in 2.0.4 or just in the latest CVS (2.0.5)? I can't beleive this wasn't added to 2.0.4 if so.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:07 am

2.0.5.

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:59 am

So what's the exact control?

/set _skyColor fog

Saturos · Post by **Saturos** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:39 am

Yay! Finally a serverlist-filter!

ts · Post by ts » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:18 am

Will we get the fog as map-objects (like box for example), too?

eagle · Post by **eagle** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:57 am

cool

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:49 pm

ToughShooter
volumetric fog is not as simple and won't work on all video cards ( it needs shaders usualy ). So that may be something that takes a while.

What trepan has done is extend the basic GL fog system we use for teleporter bluring and made it a map option. But it is still distance based fog.

Post by **trepan** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:47 pm

What I've done is expose the raw OpenGL commands
through the use of BZDB variables (in-game configurable,
unlike map objects). That, and fix that which broke by
doing so (I have another update for fake ground lights
coming...)

At the bottom is the glFog man page. Everything except
GL_FOG_INDEX is available to you (bzflag doesn't use
indexed coloring mode, thankfully). The GL_FOG_COLOR
can used named colors like the other BZDB coloring vars.

Vars
_fogMode (none, linear, exp, exp2)
_fogDensity
_fogStart
_fogEnd
_fogColor

Note If _fogMode is set to anything but the four
strings listed above, it defaults to the 'exp' state.

http://www.opengl.org/documentation/spe ... l/fog.html

^nightmare^ · Post by **^nightmare^** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:41 pm

thanks for posting that, but could you post some examples? like the ones that are in the louman map.
-thanks

Post by **trepan** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:29 pm

can you not type '/set' and read them yourself?
(p.s. with CVS clients, you can type '/set fog*' and
it will only show you those vars that match).

^nightmare^ · Post by **^nightmare^** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:11 am

trepan wrote:can you not type '/set' and read them yourself?
(p.s. with CVS clients, you can type '/set fog*' and
it will only show you those vars that match).

nope, i cant

bzflag wont work for me. But im still making maps. so eh... can somebody post some examples

-thanks

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:56 am

If BZ didn't work for you, then you couldn't see the map anyways, so why would you want examples?

I_Died_Once · Post by **I_Died_Once** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:42 pm

Me, L4m3r, Holey, Delusion, Quantum, wes, and Phalanx smoked out on Planet MoFo. They all had to go, so me and Hulk Hogan had it out in the smokescreen.

I_Died_Once · Post by **I_Died_Once** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:43 pm

Shhhh... he's waaaay over there....

I_Died_Once · Post by **I_Died_Once** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:45 pm

Ah ha. That fool thinks he's tricky...