BMS new atmospheric effects

[AtomicP]

In version 4.38 of Falcon BMS I noticed an update to the sky/atmospheric system which uses research from https://hal.science/inria-00288758 and code from https://ebruneton.github.io/precomputed_atmospheric_scattering/.

 

I have zero idea about coding and clearly integrating one piece of code is not like slotting Lego bricks, but I thought I'd mention it here in case it is of interest to the TFS devs.

[Aapje]

TFS uses the TrueSky toolkit for Cloud, Atmosphere and Weather, so they don't do this coding themselves.

[AtomicP]

I know, but they seem to be having problems getting it to work.

[BENKOE]

 

TFS does not have access to THE SOURCE CODE. In March of 2017, TFS got access to an older version,  without supplementary info. TFS is still experimenting with this today.

Reference: Some insight on TF's history and development reasons , The bug with high altitude performance ...

Edited August 8 by BENKOE

[Volant_Eagle]

Well that technically depends on what you mean by "the source code". They don't have access to the source code used in the final release of the original game, but they do have the complete source code for an earlier version of the game.

 

I could be wrong, but I believe the TFS version of CloD is based on that older source code, not the source code of the final original. If that's true, then TFS has access to every line of source code for the product they are working with and developing. It may not be THE original source code, but it is THE source code for the game we are flying now and the game they are developing.

 

...now do they know what all of that code means or understand how all of it works? ...that's a completely different question.

[AtomicP]

Ya, it's one thing being given to the source code, but another entirely to understand it. It's like being handed someone's diaries. Sure they write in the same language but good luck figuring out their short hand and what they were thinking at the time.