Archives for "December, 2009"
SilverLining 1.93: Adjustable alpha, thick cirrus.
Version 1.93 of SilverLining is now available from our download page. Licensed users, as always, may obtain the full source of this revision free of charge from the same link you received with your license purchase.
SilverLining 1.92
Version 1.92 is now available on our download page. This minor release addresses a bug in the placement of the sun and moon in non-geocentric coordinates systems where the Y axis is not the “up” direction.
Sundog Software awarded yellow ribbon as a “top simulation and training company”
We were recently presented with a real, physical yellow ribbon from Military Training and Technology magazine as an “up and coming” top simulation and training company! This award puts us in some very good company within the military training community, and reflects the fact that most of the top providers of training systems for the [...]
SilverLining 1.91 now available
Silverlining 1.91 is available now from our website. As always, updates are free of charge to our licensed users – you can download the new version from the same spot specified in your registration email, under the same password.
The big new feature is improved stratus clouds, thanks largely to feedback from our friends at Vizerra. For nimbostratus clouds, you’ll now see some real 3D depth at the tops of the clouds – there is now some actual geometry to nimbostratus, and not just textured planes. We also made some improvements to “geocentric mode” and the rendering of the atmosphere from space.
Emergent Partners With Sundog for Sky Effects
Sundog’s SilverLining™ brings simulated skies, clouds, and precipitation to Gamebryo® LightSpeed™ SEATTLE, WA, December 2, 2009 Sundog Software LLC, a leading developer of computer graphics middleware for rendering the sky and 3D clouds, has partnered with Emergent Game Technologies, a worldwide leader in game development services and tools. An integration of Sundog’s SilverLining SDK with [...]
SilverLining Delivers Real-time 3D Clouds and Sky Rendering for the PC
Originally posted by Frank Kane on ModSim.org. Read the original article here >> Realistic visual simulation of the sky and clouds is a difficult task, when faced with real-time performance constraints. Sundog Software’s SilverLining offers DirectX9 and OpenGL developers on Windows a shortcut for performant and visually convincing 3D clouds, tied together with a physically-based [...]
