Water updates
2007-12-17
Recent changes:
- Caustics, foam, 4 geometry waves and underwater mode in ObjectWater.
- Speedup of ObjectWater.
- Shaders for 3D clouds via ObjectVolumeBox (PS 3.0 required).
- Fixed 3D textures on OpenGL.
- Refactored random generator (there is no Gaussian floats anymore), now it works faster.
- ObjectVolumeBox transfers basis for generation of 3D texture coordinates inside the cube to a shader (for various sfx).
- Per-texture anisotropy filtering in materials.
- Removed gl_render_use_nv_texture_expand_normal console variable (it is always on now).
- create_shaders console variable renamed to manager_create_shaders.
- Correct detection of RGB10A2 support for old ATI cards.
- Support of GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod extension.
- Fixed refraction rendering in stereo mode.
- Progress bar for world loading.
- New order of splash screens rendering: intro splash shows prior to system init function, outro one renders after shutdown function.
- Workaround on OpenGL TTF fonts for buggy Linux driver from NVIDIA.
- Normalmaps visualization mode: render_show_normals.
- ImageDDS prints an image info being run with -i option.
- SpriteRender sample.
- Updated reference manual, added ObjectWater class description.
3D clouds:
There are a lot of handles for water tweaking, so artists can be happy:
Plus there are real-time caustics in here:
and improved foam:
