crakrjak++at++xerxesinc.com
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:37:41 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Yves Martel wrote:
> I had the same problem, there is a patch for that !
>
> 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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