[Vegastrike-devel] improving the look of the sun

[Daniel A. <dan...@us...>]

I've been thinking about this for a bit (don't ask me why ;-) ), and I
think I came up with a way to improve the look of the sun ... although
it may turn out to look really really bad :-P

Step 1, put an atmosphere around the sun.

Step 2, put the starshine billboard *behind* the sun (the interactions
between this image and te atmosphere should look good.

Step 3, to enable that stuff to be visible, decrease the opacity of the
billboard in front (and maybe shrink it a bit?)

Step 4, render the billboards with the vertical axis fixed (so that it
doesn't rotate when you do).

Step 5, is there a variable I can alter to change when the billboards
turn off, they seem to go off too soon when turning away from the sun.

Anyway, pointless email, I think it might improve the look ... easy
enough to do?

later

	Dan.a