Re: [Fenfire-dev] Libvob features needed for Loom

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Tuomas Lukka wrote:
| On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
|>| Why? Usually depth correlates with fogging out just fine, i.e. the ones
|>| that should go into background are deeper anyway.
|>
|>Yes, but not necessarily linearly.
|>
|>The major problem with getting depth to be equal to the desired fog
|>level is this: I have the cs I want to translate from, as well as the
|>polar coordinates for the translated cs, and I have the *absolute* depth
|>I want to place the translated cs at -- well, actually, the depth
|>relative to the cs *given to the view*. I don't have my parent cs's
|>depth (relative to the cs given to the view). So it's hard to get the
|>child cs to the right depth.
|>
|>One possiblity would be a coordinate system type that takes the
|>translation, rotation & c from one coordinate system, but the depth
|>relative to another coordinate system?
|
| Why not use the depth simply linearly and use the advanced fog mappings
| if you want more control?

Um, you seem to have misunderstood something about this, but I don't
know what. Above, I've tried to explain why using depth linearly
("getting depth to be equal to the desired fog level") is not simple.

- - Benja
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