heiligenschein

dejawolf

came across this, after reading a bit about a critic to the guys who believe the moonlandings were fake.

http://www.weather-photography.com/album.php?cat=optics&subcat=heiligenschein

is there any renderer that supports this? heheh.

oh, heres that moon article.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

this article is also interesting, and it explains a bit about lighting too:

http://www.iangoddard.net/moon01.htm

Eric Chadwick

I've seen this heiligenschein from an airplane window many times, when the plane's shadow is cast onto the cloud deck. Very cool effect.

For an engine to support the shadow part of the effect, it would need very high resolution shadow-casting. Not practical. Also not practical from the specular side of things... the normals would have to be very tightly packed for enough of them to be pointing at the light/you, and the texel resolution would also have to be very high I think.


Thanks for the moon chuckle. Fox is so full of shit, it really pisses me off sometimes. But hey there will always be a packed audience of gullible people for them.