Flat Clouds

[Wing19]

Just wondering if the clouds should look flat when flying through them. They look fine when looking forward but when you look out the side of you cockpit the look flat vertically.

SKWing19

[Denholm]

Take a screen-shot and post it here. We'll let you know if we see something similar when flying.

[AWwrgwy]

Yes.  They are 2-D clouds.  That's normal.  (For me anyway)


wrongway

[The Fugitive]

I think its due to the limitations of the video card you have. I know on my old one the clouds looked like that, but on my new box, which a super computer they look nice.

[ImADot]

As was said earlier, clouds are shallow 3d polygon "pyramids".  They look great face-on, but when flying through them or past them, you'll see the shallowness of the object.  I'd love to see true volumetric clouds, but that would be a great strain on mid and low range computers - something HTC will probably not choose to do...hopefully will show up some day as an option that those of us with higher-end computers could activate.

[715]

Aren't all GPUs based on flat polygons?  I don't think any card can do volumetric rendering.  I believe that requires ray-tracing like techniques.