Comments on: Skybox Clouds 2: The Encloudening

By: mashakos

mashakos — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:29 +0000

silky smooth at 2560×1600 and breathtaking to look at. Crytek, time to take some notes!

By: rez

rez — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:38 +0000

This could change the face (hair? hat?) of gaming forever! It’s beautiful.

Hell, the program as it is, coupled with a simple ocean-wave animation, would make a brilliant screen saver.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:57:06 +0000

this happens a lot here where i diss something and the authors standing right behind me :( i should learn to keep my mouth shut

By: Roderick

Roderick — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:45:09 +0000

I fixed the Start Menu link, should work OK now. The GL_ARB_color_buffer_float seems to be the source of problems with ATI cards. This is actually only required for the sky colours, not the clouds; I’ll try and put together an alternative shader for non-float textures, should take a few days.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:40:35 +0000

The developers must be British! I haven’t seen that many clouds in a long time. I guess if Australian developers made this they’d get criticised about how constant clear blue skies lack ‘visual interest’.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:51:25 +0000

Actually, I’m not sure if there are any fluid mechanics. I don’t know whether the clouds just change a bit, rather than growing and rolling or whatever depending on atmospheric conditions. But then maybe no-one cares about that sort of thing.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:44:29 +0000

@Turin Turambar

Cg is just a language that gets compiled into GPU assembly it’s platform independent as long as the complier is.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:41:37 +0000

Error – required OpenGL extension is not supported: GL_ARB_color_buffer_float

this isn’t supported by most if not all ATI drivers so i wouldn’t expect this app to run on any ATI cards although i could be wrong it doesn’t run on my work computer anyway, you’d think they’d make thier demo a bit more portable

By: Del Boy

Del Boy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:06:16 +0000

If you alter the roughness slider you can make little fluffy clouds.

And little fluffy clouds.

By: AksumkA

AksumkA — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:54:20 +0000

Crash and burn.

XP (SP3) ATI 4850 w/ 8.10 installed.

By: Calistas

Calistas — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:31:45 +0000

I miss the atmospherics we had in “Dragon Empires” (RIP, 2004). The engine produced some beautiful effects, and no other MMO has really gone for that seamless, realistic-looking world, which is a shame.

By: Corion

Corion — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:38:00 +0000

They should have sent a poet.