TA3D

Since r2557 the sky renderer has been replaced. Now it renders a sky box (it computes the 6 required textures at loading time from a spherical one) which is both faster (because it requires much fewer triangles) and nicer (because there is no polar artifacts and because rendering a cube is easily done without errors which is not the case with a sphere).

Since there is less geometry in a sky box than in a sky dome, it should be able to run on an Intel chip without slowing down the game too much

ok, time for a dumb question - how do we rotate the camera to actually see it?

Left click on the camera mode icon (bottom left of the screen), then hold middle button to rotate the camera.

Or look on the water - there is a reflection of sky

up babax.

can't wait to see the sky.

So now we have to use spherical sky textures, that are converted to cubic ones during TA3D initialising process?

That's right. You use either half sphere (upper part only) or full sphere maps (it replaces uniform color background) which are projected on a cube which is rendered instead of the old sky dome

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