Is this fog, or is it me?

[darkprophet]

hi all,
i have been through the NeHe fog tutorial (the normal one, not the volumetric !!) and ive noticed something:

i have an object (a sphere) that slowly moves towards the screen ( the z-index decreases..durr) however, when its in the background its black, how can I make it basically dissappear and appear slowly as its coming towards the screen.

The start and stop fog are as follows:
start: 0.0f
end: 10.0f

and this density thing, it doesn't absolutely nothing!

[princec]

If you want it to appear slowly then it the background colour has to be the same colour as the fog you're using when you draw the sphere.

Cas

[darkprophet]

it aint happening baby!! lol, umm...i did this:

private float fogColorF[] = { 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f };

public void initGL() {
 // some crap goes here.
 // here and there -->

 glClearColor(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f); // background colour

 // other crap
 // now fog stuff
 ByteBuffer temp = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16);
 temp.asFloatBuffer().put(fogColorF).flip();
 glFogi(GL_FOG_MODE, fogMode[2]);
 glFog(GL_FOG_COLOR, temp.asFloatBuffer());
 glFogf(GL_FOG_DENSITY, 0.9f);
 glHint(GL_FOG_HINT, GL_DONT_CARE);
 glFogf(GL_FOG_START, 0f);
 glFogf(GL_FOG_END, 10f);
 glEnable(GL_FOG);

 // sync and load textures below
}

still not working...any idea?

[princec]

No idea. Post a screenie?

Cas

[darkprophet]

yeah sure...



thats basically it, and then after that the texture (as the sphere moves forwards) appears slowly (which I want), but the sphere is black..is there a way in which I can make the whole thing appear slowly?

[darkprophet]

darn it...il give ya the url instead!!

http://www34.brinkster.com/volatile7/image1.PNG