Author Topic: a SKYDOME (Read 8050 times)

emscape · « **on:** 21 May 2010, 10:15:20 »

maybe a skydome, would be a great idea.

think about it and leave ur comments here!

titi · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 May 2010, 12:00:51 »

wrong forum?

wyvern · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 May 2010, 12:45:20 »

What are you talking about

Gabbe · « **Reply #3 on:** 21 May 2010, 13:34:58 »

$:-\$

WHAT?!?

silnarm · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 May 2010, 14:50:26 »

I think he means a 'sky-box'

Gabbe · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 May 2010, 16:51:31 »

How to implement?

John.d.h · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 May 2010, 17:23:11 »

I think this would only be useful for cinematic sequences. I guess it could be good for "future considerations", but wouldn't do much for us now in my opinion.

ElimiNator · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 May 2010, 20:50:17 »

Skydome can't you explain a bit more?

Gabbe · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 May 2010, 22:12:06 »

eliminator, we have something called wikipedia and the link there have been posted a little earlier in the topic.
Just click on the yellow text that says `sky-box`

mhm, dh, just instead, implement a video player in glest.

ultifd · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 May 2010, 23:03:00 »

Eh, be more descriptive next time...

a sky box? why?

John.d.h · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 May 2010, 23:27:03 »

Quote from: Gabriel, Gabbe on 21 May 2010, 22:12:06

implement a video player in glest.

I disagree. Implementing a video player in Glest is only good for people who have the know-how and motivation to make movies. An in-game cinematic approach (a la Age of Mythology or the beginning of the level scenes in WC3) is much more user-friendly when it comes to content-generation because it doesn't require movie-making skills or egregious rendering times.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGrmB8T0vZ8 (Spoiler alert: This kinda gives away the ending of the game.

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emscape · « **Reply #11 on:** 22 May 2010, 00:32:51 »

i mean that you can actually can see the sky. Most of the times it would be done by a sky box, a large textured orb around the map...

ElimiNator · « **Reply #12 on:** 22 May 2010, 00:34:40 »

But why? you cant ever look up...

Gabbe · « **Reply #13 on:** 22 May 2010, 09:01:41 »

elim got it right.

emscape · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 May 2010, 19:02:54 »

but, its just black when u zoom in and look forward....

John.d.h · « **Reply #15 on:** 23 May 2010, 19:13:45 »

Is it really worth loading a huge texture all the time, if you're only going to see it on rare occasions? Maybe there could be a "enable/disable skybox" trigger for cinematic camera events.

Omega · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 May 2010, 20:29:22 »

Ah yes, I suggested this for GAE a long while back. I agree that it would be awesome. I doubt it would need to be a huge file, since I have some experience with sky boxes and they tend to work quite fine with 512x512 sides. Since Glest's camera can easily tilt to see the sky (the sides of it anyway), it would be much better that the current lame black that we currently see.

emscape · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 May 2010, 21:19:36 »

yeah! someone who is getting what i mean, black is indeed a bit lame isnt it?

ElimiNator · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 May 2010, 01:44:31 »

But what about the edge of the world, how would that be.

MJR · « **Reply #19 on:** 24 May 2010, 07:20:34 »

I must say something about this sky dome. It is worthless. See every pixel on the board uses up memory on the video card and my 1 gig video card already gets pretty choppy by mid game as is. I would not want to use up what little memory to display what a dumb blue sky that doesn't help with game play but uses memory on the video card. And yes blue uses more video memory than black does. If there is ever a vote on this I say no sky dome!!!!

Gabbe · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 May 2010, 08:54:03 »

what MJR says is true, even my four gigs can get a little choppy if a game lasts long enough, but for that, what about the ones with like 256MBs?

ElimiNator · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 May 2010, 16:21:00 »

Well then put up a poll.

I say make one but have it togle for thoughs who have bad memory.

Gabbe · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 May 2010, 16:36:29 »

mhm make it so that only the parts of the skydome that are nesesarrily shows?

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