Distance Shader with 3D Clouds?

Njen · January 16, 2007, 02:03:04 PM

Is there anyone who can get this working? If so, can you please post the tgd file? I would be extremely grateful

Will · January 16, 2007, 02:06:19 PM

Il give it a try.

Regards,

Will

Will · January 16, 2007, 02:18:12 PM

Njen what are you tring to acomplish? becuase Ive got a way to get an area around the camera to display a diffrent color from that out side a given radius.

Regards,

Will

Njen · January 16, 2007, 02:20:14 PM

I want no clouds close to the camera, and clouds far away from the camera.

Will · January 16, 2007, 02:21:12 PM

Oh ok Ill keep working then

Regards,

Will

Edit: well that was weird, I went to render and everything froze for a minute then everything except menu bars of all my programs went black, I exited and it stoped.

Blackheart6004 · January 16, 2007, 02:53:46 PM

If you're suggesting pf putting clouds on the horizon, i would go through this thread - http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=111.0

Will · January 16, 2007, 02:56:01 PM

Thanks blackhart Ill keep working from there then, hold on njen im trying!

Regards,

Will

Njen · January 16, 2007, 03:17:27 PM

Quote from: Blackheart6004 on January 16, 2007, 02:53:46 PM
If you're suggesting pf putting clouds on the horizon, i would go through this thread - http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=111.0

Blackheart, I actually posted in that thread asking the same thing, but I got no response with a working file, but that might be because I was hijacking the thread. So I decided to make a nw thread specifically asking about this topic.

Will · January 16, 2007, 03:31:18 PM

By gorge (hows it spelled?) I think ive got it. though there is weird shadow artifacts not sure about those.

Regards,

Will

Will · January 16, 2007, 03:50:50 PM

by the way you may need to with the cloud, denisty, and distence shaders to get it exactly right.

Regards,

Will

Njen · January 16, 2007, 04:04:20 PM

I just tried it and it didn't work when the camera was below the clouds. I posted already in the other thread.

ProjectX · January 17, 2007, 04:14:25 AM

that could be because the distance from the camera inreased when you went below the clouds, try increasing the range of the distance shader.

Njen · January 17, 2007, 04:46:41 AM

No it's not. I already tried increasing the distance.

Kevin F · January 17, 2007, 06:08:28 AM

Njen, is this what your after? I just played around with Wills file (thanks Will). Precise placement of clouds is not really possible, since they're randomly generated by the seed value. I changed this 'till I got something roughly right then as Will said, adjusted the Density values in the Density fractal (Cloud fractal shader3). Don't know what ticking the clamp low box does, but I ticked it anyway!
Kevin.

Will · January 17, 2007, 06:15:35 AM

Nice work, I think what njen is after though is that when your on the ground that there will be no clouds near the camera. The only way I think that it could be done with the distence shader is if they had a clindrical way of measurment.

Regards,

Will