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Old 07-27-2012, 11:03 PM   #48
Jim Sachs
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I'm back home for a couple of days, so I finally got a chance to download and run this.

flipper - You're bumping into all the problems I did when I explored having a background pic, ten years ago. At that time I decided to use a background wash mostly to save clock cycles. After a few years computers got faster, so that became a moot point. But the other problems remain - The inclusion of a giant hi-res bitmap for the background texture (greatly increasing the size of the program), the mismatch of the perspective between the tank and the background, and the necessity of showing the underside of the water surface, which is just never going to look real.

I'm still interested in seeing the bending of camera angles which made that first picture you posted so tantalizing. (And I'm still mystified as to how you are accomplishing any of this without the source code.)
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