Hi M, Well yes, you're right. The outside edge of the shadow should get larger, albeit fractionally. But what I was attempting to replicate was the light that refracts around the object makes the shadow Appear smaller, like you also said. The alternative I guess, would be to make the transparent value increase with altitude.
The viewpoint I was addressing, was from a fixed viewpoint, like the tower. Stewart Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Stewart Andreason -- Saturday 10 March 2007: >> When I added shadows to the 3 craft I have, I found it nicer to >> have the shadow shrink as altitude increases. > > Err ... but they don't in real life. They just *look* smaller > when they are farther away, just like in FlightGear already. > (Theoretically, they should even get bigger, but you'd need > to be at a very high altitude -- let's say a few million km. :-) > > m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
