Re: [Celestia-developers] Removing tinted illumination

[Chris L. <cl...@gm...>]

Andrew,

I think it's reasonable to remove the colored lighting, at least until we
have some better modeling of the color.

One thing to consider: when a planet is lit by multiple stars of different
spectral types, some difference in color of the light should be perceptible.
This is a difficult to bake in to textures used in an add-on. I'm prepared
to ignore this situation, since as far as I know we've discovered no planets
that receive significant illumination from a secondary star.

--Chris

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Andrew Tribick
<ajt...@go...>wrote:

> Personally I am not a fan of the tinted illumination applied to
> planets orbiting cool stars, I don't think the pink colour doesn't
> look very nice nor does it seem particularly realistic. I'd rather
> leave it to the add-on creators to represent the effects of the
> illumination from different star types, especially since to do things
> properly you should take into account the spectrum rather than just
> the RGB colours.
>
> I've attached a patch that turns off this effect, also it removes a
> couple of functions in stellarclass.h/.cpp which look like they have
> something to do with star colours but are unused in the code.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
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