Post

studying a lot of games pre-2015 and it's making me realize just how badly modern titles over-rely on volumetric fog, I get that it's more "accurate" but it's so much more washed out and blurry... it feels like we lost something transitioning away from billboarded planes/particles with shaders

🤤

woah that is really cool I'm guilty of the volumetric fog everywhere, I gotta figure out how to do this

from my observations, opacity is determined by screen space normals, proximity and ambient occlusion, with an animated noise mask to make it look foggier though it depends on the location

Wait what, 2015 is considered old? 😭😭 We used to fake volumetric with polys using a gradient additive blend. Worked well from most angles as long as you placed them carefully, and you faded them out when the camera was close. Didn’t work on PSOne due to UV warping