Smoke and dust rendering
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Umm, I was spending all day trying to figure out how to appropriatley render smoke. The only ways to do it I could think of seemed a little far fetched, and probably wouldn''t look too good. One idea however, is to maybe disable fog in OpenGL, then draw a box with it enabled, and then disable it again. I have not tried this but by what I know about the OpenGL state machine, this may work, and is by far the least processor and programming intensive approach yet, but will it work? Also, could anyone show me a resource pointed to making smoke in OpenGL? I have yet to see a good one.
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Do some research on particle engines. I know for a fact that you can create realistic smoke effects using "them".
You can use several alpha-blended "smoke-puff" billboards in a particle system. This can work fairly well.
Another technique is "splatting." Develop a 3d volumetric texture and draw it in several quad "slices."
Your fog trick won''t work. All it will succeed in doing is creating a gray box.
Another technique is "splatting." Develop a 3d volumetric texture and draw it in several quad "slices."
Your fog trick won''t work. All it will succeed in doing is creating a gray box.
I agree with TerranFury : use billboarded, alpha-blended and textured faces (increasing its transparency or animated)
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