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staydetermined

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Eclipse effects
« on: December 01, 2016, 09:02:44 AM »
During a total solar eclipse, if you pressed C to go on the planet, the sky would go completely dark. During a total lunar eclipse, the moon has to change colour depending on the atmosphere. Can this be added? It would add realism.

Only2ndplace

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Re: Eclipse effects
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2016, 01:43:43 PM »
For there to be total darkness during a solar eclipse, they would first need to add atmospheric scattering in general. As it is now, you can always see the full nightsky while on Earth, even during the day, as if there was no atmosphere at all or as if you're floating above it. Because of that, you don't see any change of the sky during a solar eclipse.

Personally I'd really like to see a sky that changes from night to day, I can appreciate, that making something like this look good would take an immense amount of work especially with stuff like sunsets and dawns and different composition of atmospheres.