The Look of Haze

Hello to everybody,

when we add a haze to a track, sadly it doesn't look that good in game as it should, for example here:



For a better understanding I contrasted the pic a bit more, so that the problem should be quite obvious:



And my question is:
What can we do to avoid the haze having that weird pattern?
Has anyone got an idea?

Look here ... work in progress.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2013 06:48PM by Isaint.

Isaint schrieb:
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> Look here ... work in progress.
> [www.facebook.com]
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> type=1&theater


Looks good . I hope there will be a release .

Jorge's suggestion over at GP4Forever doesn't sound that bad as well .
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@klausfeldmann A video of the issue would speak a thousand words, what technique are you using to produce haze ?

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Isaint écrivait:
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> Look here ... work in progress.

If you want to see what it look's like, this feature was already there in Imola 2004 Track released in ... 2004 !
I don't know where you can get it now anyway. I only have the 1.5 update files I made...





Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2013 11:43AM by Lo2k.

ramf1v schrieb:
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> @klausfeldmann A video of the issue would speak a
> thousand words, what technique are you using to
> produce haze ?

Well, I think the secong picture shows everything about the haze-issue we have to know .

I produced my own haze with an image sofware. I thought it was good, but it wasn't xD.
Here we go:



If you want to, you can download it here:
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Lo2k schrieb:
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> If you want to see what it look's like, this
> feature was already there in Imola 2004 Track
> released in ... 2004 !
> I don't know where you can get it now anyway. I
> only have the 1.5 update files I made...

Yes great! I just extracted it from the imola track .
So, it looks like that:


Obviously there is a 'hole' in the middle of the haze, where the cars have to go though. That seems to be the clou here.
Did I understand that right???

Of course, it means, that it is not really a haze for the TCam, than more for TV, but nevertheless it's a very good feature .

@ klausfeldmann .....Yup picking up from where lo2k left off (and using an image a little bigger than a postage stamp) would be a good place to start

@lo2k ....didn't gildoorf take this any further ?

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Nope, Gildoorf gave me the track for enhancements and I just started using the same old technique than in Imola 2004 (available on GP4DB, thanks ISaint).

Lo2k Wrote:
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> Nope, Gildoorf gave me the track for enhancements
> and I just started using the same old technique
> than in Imola 2004 (available on GP4DB, thanks
> ISaint).


@ L02k You are most welcomed.


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I had this idea floating around for ages, just tried it and totally forgot the car model doesn't support transparent and/or animated textures.

A layered fog using the visor is all I could get, useless without being able to fade the edges off with transparency.







Bummer...close but no cigar

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2013 05:02PM by ramf1v.

Simply increase height of your rings and you won't have to deal with edge transparency (the further the taller)...
But you will be annoyed by the clipping of transparent rings through all the track geometry...





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2013 05:15PM by Lo2k.

Lo2k Wrote:
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> Simply increase height of your rings and you won't
> have to deal with edge transparency (the further
> the taller)...
> But you will be annoyed by the clipping of
> transparent rings through all the track
> geometry...

Yes that's what I meant.....I'm not wasting any more time on the idea.....binned

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Time for a change in atmosphere .....










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Nice Lez, which track is that in the last screens?

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It's the Cannon test track by jimbob 1 & Lee71 .... %%$$dywell amazing ....


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Isn't that the track with reversed Imola '94 layout?

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Great colours in that shot, it almost looks like a photo, looks like colour filter overlay and an obscene amount of AA

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Turbo Lover schrieb:
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> Isn't that the track with reversed Imola '94
> layout?


Yes it is the Imola layout, but it isn't revered .

Awesome haze graphics filter.. Is it released? Love to make a video.