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Fog of War example

by Frank Bignone · in RTS Starter Kit · 04/05/2008 (8:03 am) · 7 replies

Just a quick example of my current implementation of Fog of War inside TGEA (will work also for TGE) for my current RTS game Peloare: Tactical War. As soon as I have more free times, I will post a resource for this one. Be patient, as I will wait the new TGEA / AFX to be ready before publishing the release.

file.indie-zone.com/upload/mapoverlay.jpg
While still having underneath our hexagonal map, this technique offers more soft edges with a visibility map which is dynamically blend to the current landscape. Doing this needed some work on the RenderManager and also having some offscreen texture rendering to compute dynamically a texture which is then overlaid on the map.
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Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
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    Torque 3D Owner Novack
    CyberianSoftware
    #1
    04/05/2008 (2:51 pm)
    Haha! cool Frank!

    Glad to see you overhere ;)

    Torque Owner Michael Branin
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    #2
    04/05/2008 (7:43 pm)
    Very Nice fog of war!

    Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
    Darkhand Studio
    #3
    04/06/2008 (3:38 pm)
    You can look at it in motion inside this video.

    Torque Owner Andrew Brezina
    #4
    04/07/2008 (7:43 pm)
    Really cool! I love the hud as well.

    Torque Owner Cory Anderson
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    #5
    05/07/2008 (7:04 pm)
    Great work Frank.

    You might be interested in assisting with the RTS Community Project

    We'd love to have you help :)

    Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
    Darkhand Studio
    #6
    05/09/2008 (6:52 am)
    @Cory: ok, I just accept today your offer through GG website. Do not hesitate to contact me by email to see how I can help you. I'm more focus on TGEA at the moment byt the way.

    Torque Owner Dan Dias
    #7
    06/03/2008 (2:17 pm)
    I have to comment on this and say, how wonderful this looks Frank! Gives me real hope that this kit will help me achieve a working prototype/final with minimal amounts of programming (well, compared to coding my own engine!). As Andrew also commented, I also love your GUI design.