A Little Something to Whet Your Appetite

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A Little Something to Whet Your Appetite

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Check out this cool real shot of a docking with a space station:
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Re: A Little Something to Whet Your Appetite

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Wonder what's causing that greenish tint to the atmosphere light and chemical pollution or was the photo taken with a filter :?:


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I suspect filter (or just after local sundown and atmospheric scattering), but it does give it a nice alien quality.
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If you check out similar shots of earth in VS, you'll see a similar effect - it turns out reyleigh scattering does that in the upper atmosphere. Although our shaders produce a more yellowish tone, automatic white balance will probably shift it towards the greenish side due to the intense yellowishness of city lights.

It was really tough, back when I made the shaders, to tell whitebalanced pictures from natural ones. I had to do a lot of guessing and calibration, but I trust our shaders now ;)
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I just hope that it inspires a content creator more skilled than me... It seems lots of things that direction need doing.
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Well, my to-do in eye-candy-land includes actual extruding aurorae, lightning and better detail textures. Feel free to contribute (even in terms of food-for-thought) to those ;)
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