[Bf-funboard] Sky Generator

[joeedh]

Alexander Ewering wrote:

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> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, joeedh wrote:
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>>> And I guess when I sit down for an hour or so, I'll have quite a 
>>> realistic
>>> sky with Blender's internal textures, I'm sure.
>>>
>> Now what we do need is volumetric shading.
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>> Maybe I'll try to implement that. . .hmm. . .that would involve 
>> tracing a ray through a texture, shouldn't be all that difficult.
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> I'd like to inform you that Terragen doesn't do volumetric shading, 
> it's in fact
> even more primitive than Blender's texture generator - it's purely 2D.
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Take a look at the in-development Terragen (T3D) features.  It's really 
cool, and I think that Blender could benefit from that kind of 
volumetric shader.

joeedh