Atmospheric effects

[Tomasz Lewicki]

I know my feature request will look quite strange but maybe in some future releases (Nightshade 13?) could we see some atmospheric effects? I mean rendering clouds on Earth's sky, seen from Earth surface.

It would be nice to show to the public: "now is very cloudy evening, then we see some stars between clouds..." and after few seconds (minutes or hours on planetarium sky) sky is clear and beautiful.

Looking even more forward: incorporating basics of atmospheric optics could be a hammer. I love looking for halos, rainbows etc. Look at this page: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halosim.htm and application HaloSim - it's I'm thinking of.

...And now you can kill me ;)

[Trystan (trystan)]

Something like this ;-) http://digitaliseducation.com/products-nightshade.html. (See screenshots at bottom of page)

[Tomasz Lewicki (stalkerpl)]

Yes, something similar to this. These pictures look incredible! I saw screenshots today and immediately thought about more complex approach. I think even proprietary software for planetarium systems doesn't have it.

I can't wait until version 12 release :)