Improvements to the cloudsystem:
- A new xml format
- Texture indexing based on the position of the sprite in the cloud
mass, allowing more control over the texture set.
- Improved fog and shading
- Better sprite distribution
- A more natural distribution of clouds, so no more obvious grids.
Incorporated changes to effects file syntax. Changed Till's landmass
to mix in the base terrain texture. Some shader cleanup.
Also, add a GUI control for enabling shaders.
specify the same texture in the "foo.lighted" and "foo.unlighted" material
entry. This also allows to drop the state cloning and thereby solves the
most urgent apt_signs.cxx TODO. :-)
Y ... black on yellow -> direction, destination, boundary
R ... white on red -> mandatory instruction
L ... yellow on black with frame -> runway/taxiway location
B ... white on black -> runway distance remaining
I've made adjustments to the following textures based on everyon's feedback:
Adjusted the hues on City [1,2,3] made them reddish
Dryier shrubs
improved the sand textures even more
applied Ron Jensens's XML patch to fix the drylakes
the download is fgfs_textures_2006_03_31.zip
New textures update:
Include a new Town texture (now just 1 texture...originally was 3) This
looks REALLY good and it goes will with all terrain types, and best of all
it's a single texture...town2, and town3 are nolonger apart of the download
package.
A new sand texture (2 textures...for testing) which I hope John? can test
this because he's very familar with desert terrain...I've only seen it in
pictures.
And an improved Drycrop textures (now 4 Textures...was 3) now the texture
looks more rural, you can best see the texture from KTPA.
If the feedback is good on the desert texture I will do a full clean set
so you can delete the previous texture folder and have a clean set of all
the Flightgear textures.
- new and updated sources for the new volumetric clouds
- 2 new textures for the clouds
- an update to the render dialog to enable/disable and change a few parameters
for the new clouds
