[gameprogrammer] Re: Sky in OpenGL

haha no problem, give it a try and see if it does what you need it too

it's a wierd problem that even with depth test removed it doesn't show it.

if that doesn't help let us know, all part of the puzzle :P

On 11/15/05, Stephen <gp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> D'oh! Thanks, I didn't know you could do that.
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> Cheers,
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> Steve.
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> Stephane Marchesin wrote:
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> > Stephen wrote:
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> >> I'm having trouble working out what to do about how I implement a sky
> >> in my OpenGL game. I originally surrounded the game world with a
> >> massive sphere, and drew the image onto the inside, and it worked
> >> well (especially when I rotated it). However, I've now set the
> >> maximum view distance to be something more sensible, so OpenGL
> >> doesn't try to draw everything in the distance. However, this
> >> obviously means that the sky sphere now doesn't get drawn. How do
> >> other games get round this? I can't think of another way that would
> >> still produce a realistic looking sky.
> >>
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> > glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
> > render_sky();
> > glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
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> > Stephane
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