Yo .dsf files contain all the water I was talking about. Thank you very much!

There should be _no_ calls to glGet to access the current transform state anymore…since it’s all inside X-plane, we know what we did.

Plugins still have to call glGet – I have some notes to provide dataref access to transform so plugins don’t have to do that, as it stalls the driver threads.

Finally, just because you don’t see transform stack actions in a GL profiler doesn’t mean they’re not happening, and frankly I’m not sure they’re as expensive as you might think, relative to the amount of work they are doing.

Ok, I am used to the openGL terminology of “matrix stacks” so I thought this was some software layer on your side. Good then I guess we won’t see any of these lengthy glPushMatrix, glRotatef, …, glTranslatef, … , glGetFloatv, glPopMatrix sequences any more, and that all this will be managed outside of the openGL path.

PhM

I only did external view to easier set view direction. Also and even more in cockpit view the effect is seen while yawing around headings 0, 90, 180 or 270 deg like in this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iqEU5WJkk

I only mentioned to keep the chance for a slight improvement one time… . No need to take your time now.
Yours sincerely

The transform stack is the set of matrix stacks applied to vertices in the fixed function pipeline: the modelview matrix stack, the projection matrix stack, and some big pile of texture coordinate matrix stacks.

Hi Ben,

What do you call : “the transform stack”, what’s in there ?

PhM

Hi Tinamus,

Sorry, but did you read the Blog post above? I mean really, there is a line which says : “Tuning and improvements to the look of the clouds, including their behavior as you fly into and out of them.” … and the second part of the sentence is about your request!

Yep – there’s one extra gotcha: the clouds are built around the aircraft, so the more you go AWAY from your aircraft the WEIRDER things get. We don’t try to update with the camera because you can move the camera REALLY fast and the async threaded cloud system would not be able to keep up.

Thank you for your answer. I didn’t expect the outer buckets so near. Just to show what I tried to describe I made this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EOiru_BiU

Yours