Re: fog color

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Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:47:54 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Angus Dorbie wrote:

> If you change fog color downstream in the draw then you
> run the risk that the fog color from the app will clobber
> your results next frame. Not a good plan unless you modify
> it before drawing _every_ frame. Same goes for other similar
> info.
>
> Modify fog colour in the application process and use
> multiple fogs if you need variety. Note this needs to be
> the performer app, not the keyboard process, cull process
> or draw process, but the application which ran through
> the pfConfig.

But if your fog changes frequently or suddenly, that change happens
asynchronously in all channels - which looks terrible. (This
may have been fixed recently - but this statement was certainly
true a year or so ago).

Doing the fog change in DRAW fixes *that* problem - but admittedly
you have to be careful not to try to change it anywhere else
as well.

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