Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moonlight

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

>> Well, the problem is that this may be nice from a coding perspective,  
>> but
>> it breaks the correlation between moon illumination and simulated time.  
>> If
>> you start the sim at full moon and then select a date with new moon,
>> you'll still get full illumination.
>
> Hmmm, see below.  This was absolutely not the case with the ALS
> shaders when I wrote the code back in 2015.


I can't comment on what you tested, but tied properties never updated in  
the Effect framework since as long as I can remember (it's a major pain if  
you develop aircraft effects since JSBSim properties typically are tied...)



* Thorsten