Cubemapping a snaking river
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| I'm at a bit of a loss as how to properly set-up cubemap reflections for a snaking river. If it was a river, then i suppose you'd just stick the camera in the middle of the river? Can anyone shed some light on this please :o) |
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| If the whole river is in view (ie from above) then most people probably would not do the reflections in realtime. If it is for a FPS-type game or overhead cam game, where only sections of the river are seen at a time, then it can be done dynamically. In this case, your answer is simple: How does a boat travel a snaking river? I'd set up camera waypoints along the river so that it can be done dynamically relative via the player/cam position. |
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| So, you suggest moving the camera along with the player? It's probably not worth doing then, as i don't really want to update the cubemap, just need a rough reflection of the surrounding. Thanks for that :o) |
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| Dunno if this will help, its something we were all playing with about 2 years ago: http://www.d-grafix.com?page=sourcecode If you had your snaking river as a dip in a terrain then it should work. |
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| Thanks. I have opted for just using a static cubemap to roughly represent the surrounding. It's underground, so it's pretty samey. I mind seeing that code though. A nice way of doing it. I'll check it out. Probably need something like that for my outdoors sections :o) Thanks! |
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