Fog of War and Blending

[fuego]

Hi!

 

I have posted this topic to a non-programming related thread, may be I should repeat my question in this thread too:

 

My First Message On That Thread was:

Hi!

 

Before the age of shaders (that was a long time ago I know ) I have made a 3D based small RTS game. At that time, I was using a technique for FoW (Fog of War) issue, it was like this:

 

- There were 3 textures, 1 the original ground image, 1 the previously visited areas (half-dark black and white texture) and 1 for the units and houses which have a sight range.

- I was blending these 3 textures with multiply blend

- voila! your FoW is ready

 

So:

 

1.is there any easier way to do FoW in LW engine? Or is there an easy way for multiplication blend?

2.how can I get/set the texture of water plane?

 

Best regards,

Tolga

 

My Second Message was:

Let me give you the example of my old program. You can downlaod it from here:

 

http://cid-51aec94d6...Docs/RTTFOW.zip

 

When you execute this file, you will see that an OpenGL app will start and there are some bright points on the window. Consider these bright points are the visible areas around some buildings or some units on an RTS game. When you move the mouse, another bright area will be moving, and every place it moved on will be less brighter, and this is the effect happens when a unit goes to somewhere else but its previously visited routed are half-bright. I have made this with a system of multiplication blend (with glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE); statement). How can I do the same with LW engine?

 

Regards,

Tolga

[fuego]

I believe you can at least write about how can I access the textures of a model? Or specific entities such as water plane

 

Thanks

[Laurens]

If you need access to the textures of a surface you can use GetMaterial.

 

Wouldn't know about the waterplane though.

[fuego]

Thanks. Your explanation gave me at least some place to start.