In a bit of a fog...

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Adam Novagen (Posted 2009) [#1]

I've been futzing around with the actual 3D command set of B3D lately - woohoo! - and I have a question. When I use the camera fog effect, it flickers rather badly & annoyingly, and quite noticeably unless there's a LOT of scenery in front of it. Is this a Blitz idiosyncrasy, or is it just because of my laptop's old graphics card? (4x AGP, 8MB)

GfK (Posted 2009) [#2]

Probably a graphics card issue. Fog in Blitz3D looks horrendous on some of the old Voodoo cards as well. You could try switching between 16/32-bit graphics but that's about all you can do.

Stevie G (Posted 2009) [#3]

Are you using entityautofade or any alpha meshes? I've found in the past that this causes some issues - probably z-order related.

Ross C (Posted 2009) [#4]

Try increasing your camera near range, and see if it helps any. The less distance between the near and far distances, the more accuracy it gives you.