Ancient Spaces Blog

So the last few work days seem to have resulted in a lot of cool thing getting accomplished.

Cool thing number A: Orthographic View
Orthographic tool is a very useful tool for arranging items in 3D space. In orthographic view instead of viewing objects in perspective, you see a flat projection on a plane. The effect of this is that you see everything with absolutely no depth perception. The strange thing about OGRE's orthographic view mode, is that the orthographic projection is projected onto the near clipping plane, which means in orthographic view mode you change your zoom by changing you clipping distance.

Cool thing number B: Particles
Particle Systems let you do lots of fun things such as rain, fire, smoke, and water fountains. Check out Glen's post for a picture of a smokey longhouse.

Cool thing number C: Global Scene Properties
Global scene properties are properties that apply to the entire scene instead of a single object. Properties such as ambient lighting or terrain information are included in the global properties. As of right now only the ambient light color, and background color are changeable, but soon skybox and terrain options will be included.

That is all for now,
-Simon
Orthographic Grandmaster