Problems with MXI on Octane.
Kenneth Sewell (sewell++at++siscom.net)
Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:28:59 -0400
I have been trying to add an atmospheric haze(aka fog) to a flight sim I
am working on. I tried every algorithm (lin, exp, exp2...) as well as
varying my clipping planes. The best it would do is apply what appeared
to be a constant haze over the entire screen so that hill in the
background had the same amount of fog as the foreground did. I assumed
that I was missing something, however today I ran the program on the
second monitor ( I usually use pipe 0 because is it the fastest) and to
my suprise it applied the fog perfectly. It looks great now but, the
fog only works when I run the program on the second head. I did try
perfly running on both monitors and the fog seems to work on both, so I
guess my question is what could I be doing or not be doing that would
cause this behavior? The primary graphics board is an MXI (2 GEs, 2
REs, 4 TRAMs) the second board is the SI (1 GE, 1 RE, 0 TRAMs). For
obvious reasons I need to run the program on the MXI however I really
need the fog because the area of my program is huge and without the haze
you can see the far clipping plane which doesn't look too good. The
computer is an Single processor Octane running 6.4 with performer 2.1.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Ken
Sewell++at++siscom.net
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