On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:47 +0200, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > In case there is any lingering doubt that Flightgear can't deal with > horizon curvature at high altitude: > > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14844 > > (taking the X-15 to 270.000 ft) > > Done with recent Local Weather (which, as I discovered, is fine with Mach > 6) and Terrain Haze shader, LOD bare range is 150 km, max. visibility is > limited to 120 km (something culls the terrain when I try to get a bit > more...but I'd probably run out of memory at some point anyway), frame > rate was consistently between 20 and 25. > > No cheats or readjustments of the shader parameters - the whole change in > the sky and horizon is seamless from the ground all the way up to 270.000 > ft.
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