Battlezone 1

Was it intentional that the sun only had this flash effect in /sw mode and not in /hw mode?

















and was it intentional that when you exit a mission in /sw mode the game fades away in back but not in /hw mode?

The effect was disabled for hardware rendering since it couldn't probe the frame buffer for occlusion. It also required a full-screen translucent polygon, which was fairly expensive at the time. The rendering cost isn't as much of an issue now, but the lack of occlusion test means that the glare effect would still happen even if the sun were blocked.

Update: I was able to duplicate the software effect with a D3D9 occlusion query. It wasn't even all that hard, though the implementation is a bit ugly. I did try to ensure that it fails gracefully on graphics cards that don't support queries. I'm definitely satisfied with the end result.

What does it look like? When I look at the sun in BZ now, I don't see anything, not even the original lens effect.

It should look just like the original software effect. (I'll try to restore the lens flare for you.)

I personally don't care about the lens effect or the sun glare effect, but here's a screen shot:

Maybe it's just not supported by my hardware. My hardware doesn't support the MultiSample stuff being anything other than 0 in render.cfg either.

That could be. The new build should fix the lens flare rings.

in the new build it seams thers only a sun on moon



tried coli, no sun on the east side where it was supposed to be

/hw




/sw

Tug played in /hw so we was unable to see it


moon map in mp have a working sun, dunno if you forgot the other planets or something