A suggestion / idea: Nighttime 'colours'

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Originally Posted by Daniël

Excellent request. In low light conditions people see mostly grey. The ground in the edited picture looks good, but I think the sky has more colours at night. More dark blue (of course it depends on the time at night and clouds). Snow can look blue at night.

So, grayed out ground and water textures, but dark blue sky to reflect starlight and sunlight from over the horizon.

In moonlight conditions, things get interesting. Functionally, reflected moonlight can be treated as very dim sunlight. In reality, the moon is slightly better at reflecting red wavelengths of sunlight - making it appear red - but because humans lose their ability to clearly detect red colors in low light we perceive moonlight - even bright moonlight - as being more neutral.

http://www.cast-lighting.com/search/...ay-document/71

Originally Posted by Daniël

I've edited FoolTrottel's pictures. It has the dark blue sky and the grey ground. What do you think of it?

Pretty good.

I'm not sure how well IL2 can handle lighting effects, though, given the age of the graphics engine. Ideally, everything would be handled with formulas that handle things like luminosity and light scattering at a distance.