12 settembre
Fog of War Sample
By semi-popular request (I heard one person asking for it, and thought it was an interesting idea :) ), I've put together a quick sample that shows a way to implement Fog Of War in XNA, for a 3D game. As a word of warning, this is put together in a couple of hours, so it may be hacky in some parts.
The idea is to have the Fog Of War in a texture. The texture represents a view from above, covering all terrain. Using render to texture, I draw a white gradient disk in this texture for each friendly unit of the player, using additive blending.
After this, I draw the scene normally, and when drawing the enemies, the pixel shader gets, based on its position, the corresponding pixel from the Fog of War Texture. Using this information, it sets the alpha value of the output. This way, when the enemy unit is close to the friendly unit, you can see it, at the borders it fades away, and when out of range, it is invisible.
The controls are similar to the ones in SkinnedModel Sample.
If you use this for any project, please send me a screenshot. The sample can be found here. (Thanks again Kyle, for hosting my files)
And some pictures:
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