Turbine Games Q&A/Graphics/Q-68
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Sky Sphere instead of Sky Plane
| Asked: | 2000.11.21 |
| Name: | Dodger |
| Question Title: | Sky Sphere instead of Sky Plane |
| Category: | Graphics |
| Question: | I know it's a very low priority thing but what would be involved in making the sky plane into a sky sphere or at least fake it somehow. It's not a huge problem but I always thought it would make it look that much better if you were on top of a mountain somewhere and the sky didn't just end in the distance in a flat line. |
| Answered: | 2000.11.21 |
| Name: | Jason Booth |
| Answer: | If your refering to the clouds, there's no good way to make them on a sphere and still have them move independently of the backgroud atmosphere. If you placed the texture on a sphere, it would warp all over the place. The only way to make it work would be to rotate the cloud sphere, which doesn't make for a very convincing cloud effect. I could prevent the distance problem if it wasn't for the extreme height an AC character can traverse, and the fact that AC has a horizon. Most games don't have to deal with horizon, and don't allow the camera to move over 1000 meters above sea level. |