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As beautiful as this is, it still saddens me that the best we have for efficient cloud effects is drifting camera-facing billboards displaying pre-rendered poof
by mistercow 14y ago
As beautiful as this is, it still saddens me that the best we have for efficient cloud effects is drifting camera-facing billboards displaying pre-rendered poofs.
- sprobertson 14y agoIt impresses me what an effective technique it is!
- daenz 14y agoI recently read a paper: Volumetric Clouds and Mega Particles[1]. Here's a demo of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QqD26SXWDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QqD26SXWDc It looks to be somewhat better than billboards and cheap as well, though it does have some drawbacks. [1] http://www.inframez.com/events_volclouds_slide18.htm http://www.inframez.com/events_volclouds_slide18.htm
- nwh 14y agoHave some properly-3D WebGL jellyfish to make up for it — http://chrysaora.com/ http://chrysaora.com/