fog tutorial

Re: fog tutorial Posted by G4MER on Sun Feb 20th 2005 at 9:44pm

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Can someone do a Fog Controller mini map tutorial for me? and explain how to use it?

I have been trying to get fog to work on my map and have not yet been
able to. A small example and a read me on how to do it would do wonders
for me. Thanks in advance. Please post it here and link me.. that way
others can also learn how its done.

Re: fog tutorial Posted by OtZman on Sun Feb 20th 2005 at 10:23pm

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If you haven't already seen, this one might help:

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=116

Re: fog tutorial Posted by Leperous on Mon Feb 21st 2005 at 12:03am

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It's not at all hard to get this entity working correctly, if you're not seeing any fog perhaps your computer/GC can't handle it? A 'default settings' entity should work fine.

Re: fog tutorial Posted by Liberal.Nyulism on Mon Feb 21st 2005 at 1:57pm

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Make sure it's actually fog that you wan't.

The fog effect is really a "haze" effect, and causes the fog color to wash out surfaces at a distance.

The func_smokevolume entity is generally what you want if you're really looking for fog. I think what's-his-name :smile: has a tutorial on www.akilling.org that covers environmental effects.

Hope this helps.

Re: fog tutorial Posted by $loth on Wed Nov 15th 2006 at 6:36pm

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I know this is an old thread, but it came up in the search!
With the fog start and end properties what axis is it refering to?

Re: fog tutorial Posted by reaper47 on Wed Nov 15th 2006 at 7:52pm

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I don't think start and end refer to any axis. It's spherical I think. There is no fog before the distance set in "start" and it fades to a solid color until the distance set in "end".

An interesting link I found about the "Use Angles" value:
http://www.editlife.net/entity.php?name=env_fog_controller

Why snark works.