Why did you mess up the lighting ?

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Is this how the morings look in your area?

Looks really good to me. Sunrises/Sunsets do look different from the air than on the ground. Seen them many times (I'm a commercial pilot).

MAC

[luthier]

I'm just going to link to some random google image search picture

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/...64468e4995.jpg

[JimmyBlonde]

Luthier,

This looks pretty good actually but is it possible to replicate the magnifying effect of the earths' atmosphere on the visual size of the sun as it descends/rises?

eg:



That would be a first in flight sims afaik. The colours in your update look fine to me, from what I've read there's usually a lot of haze in that region during summer and it sometimes does take on a pinkish hue at dawn/dusk.

[luthier]

Originally Posted by JimmyBlonde

This looks pretty good actually but is it possible to replicare the magnifying effect of the earths atmosphere on the visual size of the sun as it descends/rises?

It's actually an optical illusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by luthier

I'm just going to link to some random google image search picture

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/...64468e4995.jpg

Thank you for taking the time to aswer.
That image actually has a lot more orange hue than the game right now.

[Wolf_Rider]

Originally Posted by MACADEMIC

Looks really good to me. Sunrises/Sunsets do look different from the air than on the ground. Seen them many times (I'm a commercial pilot).

MAC

yes, that they do... the colour banding (of the clouds) above the clouds at late sunset are particularly surreal



"Red at dawn, sailor mourn - red at night, sailor delight"

red dawn = coming storm - red sunset = good weather

[SNAFU]

Never trust any photo you didn´t shot yourself...

But I tend to agree that a sunrise high in the atmosphere looks very different to the ones you see on the ground and they sometime can be really surreal. I personally would prefer an inch more orange and less pink, but I also like how it is done now and there are issues which should be dealt with more urgently.