Renk Thorsten wrote:
Emilian wrote:
>> It would be good to make it Weather system agnostic from the
>> effect/shader side of things, don't you think?
>
> No.
>
> If you want to render atmospheric light effects, the shader needs to
> know the structure of the atmosphere and at what altitude the light
> attenuation due to clouds occurs, and the only system which has this
> information is the weather system, so the effect side can not be
> agnostic to what goes on in the weather system.
Emilian proposes the weather system to be agnostic about the shaders,
not the shaders to be agnostic about weather.
Anyhow, starting at an even higher level of detail, the weather system
might be required to know where sunlight actually hits the ground ....
Cheers,
Martin.
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