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Hello folks,
long time no see! I have been sucked up by the world of MSFS the last couple of months.
A came across the following recently, and thought I needed to share, since I considered the effects/results of this man's work nothing but absolutely spectacular. I have never ever seen such a realistic kind of atmospheric rendering in real time from inside the atmosphere and from space. It has light shafts, the Earth's Shadow (is visible in the atmosphere and so on... just gorgoeus). Especially the effect on the surface map colour (Blue Marble Map) is terrific, the greens get washed out/shifted to a more blue and red hue, frigging just like in the real world!
I have given the demo a go, though it did not run flawless on my system, it still looked great.
I so much hope that this could find a way into a new graphics engine (OGLA), it would be amazing! Combined with a star field rendering like in Celestia... OMG... Sorry for all that superlative talking:embarrassed:
Check it the following links:
http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Eric.Bruneton/
->scroll down to "Atmosphere" and check out the images and particularly the videos!
See also here (includes a link to the demo, big download):
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=542295
What do you think? Artlav? Anyone?
long time no see! I have been sucked up by the world of MSFS the last couple of months.
A came across the following recently, and thought I needed to share, since I considered the effects/results of this man's work nothing but absolutely spectacular. I have never ever seen such a realistic kind of atmospheric rendering in real time from inside the atmosphere and from space. It has light shafts, the Earth's Shadow (is visible in the atmosphere and so on... just gorgoeus). Especially the effect on the surface map colour (Blue Marble Map) is terrific, the greens get washed out/shifted to a more blue and red hue, frigging just like in the real world!
I have given the demo a go, though it did not run flawless on my system, it still looked great.
I so much hope that this could find a way into a new graphics engine (OGLA), it would be amazing! Combined with a star field rendering like in Celestia... OMG... Sorry for all that superlative talking:embarrassed:
Check it the following links:
http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Eric.Bruneton/
->scroll down to "Atmosphere" and check out the images and particularly the videos!
See also here (includes a link to the demo, big download):
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=542295
What do you think? Artlav? Anyone?