Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> There's actually a LOT of math involved in that, especially if you want to
> handle all sorts of sky vectors (rolling the camera).  Luckily for you, the
> math has been done already.  I did it for my lens flare include file, and
> adapted it for a "background" INC file (yet to be released).

Ah. I haven't looked at any lens flare files yet, but as I was doing the
copyright text thing I was thinking, you know, that might be how they do
those lens flare thingies.... :)

> The background.inc file creates a plane with a user-defined texture which is
> lined up with the camera's view at a user-defined distance from the camera.
> The math would basically be the same for putting everything in foreground, but
> the user would specify a much shorter distance and probably want to clip the
> plane (or use a different object, like a text object).
> 
> I'll post here again when I finish cleaning up the INC files.
> 
> -Nathan
> 

Looking forward to it. In the meantime I'll see if I can assimilate some
lens flaring code... :)


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