Shaders

Summary:

Finally where I can use them

Shaders

Craig Macomber 1234327224|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

After playing with shaders in various shader building tools, today I finally got to the point where I can use them in code, and thus put them into FG (one I port it to raw OpenGL, which is a large task).

What does this mean to you? It means that FG will have spiffy cool graphics that use your graphics card to its potential (considering my graphics card is crap, that means little for me…). None of this 5 seconds to generate a crummy texture. On a decent card, it will make a good texture in less than 1/20th of a second.

I'm pretty delighted with this success and I will be proceeding straight to getting my render to texture code to let me produce textures with shaders. Things are going to get cool!

Re: Shaders

tbg10101 1234406090|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Awesome Craig!

Plus OpenGL is cross-platform!

Everyone loves spiffy GFX!!!

Re: Shaders

Phenoca 1236571801|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

This is cool, Craig. Does this calculate for only one source of light, or multiple light-sources?

Edit: OpenGL is cross-platform? Oh sweet :D

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Re: Shaders

Craig Macomber 1236572414|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

OpenGL supports multiple light sources, though if we try to pre-light the textures in the shaders it could be somewhat complex to do lunar lighting as well as solar/multi solar (but not impossible.