Re: Problems with MXI on Octane.

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Kenneth R. Sewell III (sewell++at++siscom.net)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 11:51:51 -0400

I have installed patch 3132, which SGI claims fixes the Fog problem on
the Octane's MXI hardware (and also is supposed to update the patch
2990), However my problem remains. Any other ideas? Thanks.

                Ken
                Sewell++at++siscom.net
>
> 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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