Yves Martel (martel++at++signifi.com)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 16:18:35 -0400
I think it was patch 2990 ?
On Jul 1, 10:28am, Kenneth Sewell wrote:
> Subject: Problems with MXI on Octane.
> 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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