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Terrain Lighting/Fog of War...?

by Ricky Taylor · in Torque Game Engine · 05/09/2006 (7:48 am) · 9 replies

Would it be possible to edit the terrain lighting (dynamically, C++)?

See, I'm trying to make Fog-of-War, and I want it to just darken "unviewable" areas.

I would like the terrain to repeat possibly, so any ideas?
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Torque Owner Skylar Kelty
SkylarK
#1
05/09/2006 (7:56 am)
Take a look at TLK and DRL

Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
#2
05/09/2006 (7:59 am)
Yeah, but even if I had those, how would I do it?

It needn't have anything to do with lighting, that was just a thought.

Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#3
05/09/2006 (10:08 am)
With Bit Shifter they had dynamic terrain textures, so you could possibly do something like that and have terrain textures be dark, and/or trying using dynamic view distance and fog setups. Base it all of a grid of what areas should be visible or something. No idea how difficult all that would be, just some guesses.

Torque Owner Skylar Kelty
SkylarK
#4
05/09/2006 (10:43 am)
Quote:I want it to just darken "unviewable" areas.

didn't see that bit sorry

Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
#5
05/10/2006 (8:17 am)
How could I do dynamic textures?

Lighting would be the obvious one, but I cant work out how to set the darkness of an area and all terrain repeats!

Please help. =(

Torque Owner Skylar Kelty
SkylarK
#6
05/10/2006 (9:23 am)
Why don't you adjust the fog in the world editor (make it closer)

Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
#7
05/10/2006 (3:52 pm)
I'd need to edit the fog dynamically, any ideas? Volumetric fog sounds cool, and its something no-one has tried before.

Any other ideas?

Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
#8
05/11/2006 (7:46 am)
*BUMP* Mmmm?

Torque Owner Bryce "Cogburn" Weiner
#9
05/12/2006 (3:26 am)
My only suggestion isn't to "obscure" terrain and features and reveal them, but to simply not render them at all beyond a certain radius around friendly units, just make the pixel black. With Google to lookup the mathematics, you can vingette the edges for exactly the effect you're looking for.