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Re: Rendering Clouds

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Quenty is not online. Quenty
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23 Mar 2012 01:18 AM
A super cool concept I thought of was a real time cloud render for ROBLOX. Now this may seem super complicated - it does too me. But I found a great article about it. The article can be found by going to the goo.gl link of: G4asD. The hardest part will be creating the vectors.

Once you have a area made, what you want to do is, like they did, render the 3D clouds using sprites. Now our option here is decals. We don't want to use billboardGUI's because they don't have the ability to change the Vertex color or change the transparency yet. So we'll do local parts. And we'll position them so in the background we have some nice clouds that are really 2D, and in the foreground some 3D clouds. The sprites should begin by being transparent except for the part that we want - which should be black. This creates a decal we can - using meshes change the vertex color of.

I think the lag might be a problem, but it sounds like each cloud (3D) will use around 25 - 100 parts. (The Article used 5 -400) We'll probably have like 10-20 clouds. So... maybe 2000 local parts.

Now we should start with 1 3D cloud. And these clouds can remain where they are for at least 30 seconds before moving slowly. The constantly updating one will be the ones in the background. Those will possibly take updating up too once per a second. We also have the problem of quick camera movement. But if limited too a first person view, we can update our rendered clouds so they always are facing / angled in the right way. We might use billboard GUI's for this.

Now inside of the clouds, we'll have small rotating whips that fade in and out to provide a moving feel.

If anyone would like to / be interested in this project, I need help. :D Let's make this a scripters forum project. :D
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AdamantTale is not online. AdamantTale
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23 Mar 2012 01:32 AM
Don't F5 your own threads...
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Quenty is not online. Quenty
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23 Mar 2012 01:36 AM
Ahem. I use Javascript.
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AdamantTale is not online. AdamantTale
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23 Mar 2012 01:38 AM
Ahem, please stop.
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Quenty is not online. Quenty
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23 Mar 2012 01:39 AM
^_^

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oysi92 is not online. oysi92
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23 Mar 2012 08:32 AM
Why not just add 50 billboards floating up in the air?
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Brandonhare is not online. Brandonhare
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23 Mar 2012 09:04 AM
Why not a cloud mesh? :D
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Candymaniac is not online. Candymaniac
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23 Mar 2012 09:41 AM
@Brandon;
I was exactly gonna say that.

"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens."
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IAmNotWise is not online. IAmNotWise
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23 Mar 2012 12:52 PM
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nate890 is not online. nate890
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23 Mar 2012 01:00 PM
Perlin noise would get the job done.
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trappingnoobs is not online. trappingnoobs
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23 Mar 2012 01:19 PM
who gives a crap what the clouds look like, honestly, this is why our games always fail. we care too much about pathetic things like clouds and too little about actually making a game that's fun to play
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1Ra is not online. 1Ra
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23 Mar 2012 03:09 PM
Oysi should be on the job of creating another useless but epic thing.
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nightname is not online. nightname
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23 Mar 2012 03:31 PM
Not going to read the article in the link - but it seems interesting, however I prefer to do things my way.

Anyway, this seems more of a "fun" project if done outside of ROBLOX. Imagine, creating your own 3D renderer, with your own vector and 3D vector class. FUN!
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nate890 is not online. nate890
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23 Mar 2012 04:09 PM
Oh, you're talking 3D clouds. Boorrring. 2D clouds would be much more fun.
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NovusTheory is not online. NovusTheory
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14 Apr 2015 12:26 PM
@trappingnoobs

Because that's an aesthetic to the game... Making them look really good
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jewelycat is not online. jewelycat
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14 Apr 2015 12:31 PM
This thread is three years old, and was ghostbumped by some noob.
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yobo89 is not online. yobo89
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15 Apr 2015 09:58 AM
Support +1 i guess :) but will the clouds keep going round a set path, will there be a parallaxing feature with different cloud depths, if they go out of the universe it will look a bit dodgy since its square.
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NovusTheory is not online. NovusTheory
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15 Apr 2015 10:38 AM
^ Ghost Bumper bro. Ignore this thread
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powerhotmail123 is not online. powerhotmail123
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15 Apr 2015 10:45 AM
Wow lol. xD

I thought this was a new thread. :P

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