Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering during nighttime and the Sun

2013-05-20 Thread Renk Thorsten
By any chance, is this a bug when using atmospheric light scattering? Yes. The issue you see is that real terrain is drawn out to some draw distance set by visibility and LOD range, and beyond what appears as fogged terrain is drawn by the skydome code. And the sun is set to be always

[Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering during nighttime and the Sun

2013-05-18 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Hi, Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/103387392510447269112/albums/5879491608548672161?authkey=CK30jsGwlYPEwgE By any chance, is this a bug when using atmospheric light scattering? This was taken over the east US, and local time was around 8 PM. The sun appears to show from below the