I Hope BOS Graphics Are Better Than ROF.

[Liz Lemon]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

This is one thing that imediately struck at me when they modified the lighting engine. If you looked at the sun, just after sunrise, in the old engine, you could see the colors of the entire area around the sun. and scatered light. The human eye can see that color.
The new "fix" made it work like a cheap camera on auto. when looking straight at the sun, they turned everything else but the sun disc in grey. This was a clear example of royally dumbing down of the lighting engine.

Here is a paper on a slightly different method of atmospheric scattering. Incidentally, this is what Xplane 10 uses.
http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPU...chapter16.html

Scroll down to section 16.6 where it talks about HDR, but here is the important pic.


Left is with HDR, right is without.

Guess what MG fixed... er, I should say removed...