A few days ago tf51d made an interesting remark: there isn't any sim today that does get the sun color right at sunset, i.e. the typical red/orange sun color at sunset or sunrise. So this got me interested and I experimented a little with the X-Plane sun textures, and indeed it's possible to have a red sun at sunrise/sunset!

 

I'm far from being a texture artist, so this is just a very quick and dirty example, that I managed to do in a few minutes with an image editor:

 

 

 

Of course a real texture artist, with much more time at disposal, could do much better than that. I think the lighting engine of X-Plane is quite powerful after all!

 

 

Marco

Very nice shot!

Superman won't like your new textures :lol:

 

 

 

Red Sun Radiation: Natural in Krypton's planetary system, red solar radiation replaces the higher-yield yellow solar energy in Superman's cells, robbing him of the fuel for his powers. (Pre-Crisis, red solar radiation was said to lack the superpower-enabling "ultra solar rays" that yellow solar radiation contains.^[27]) This process does not have the painful, crippling and fever-like symptoms of Kryptonite, and essentially leaves him with the normal health and abilities of a human in his size and shape, as it did for the entire population of Krypton during its existence. Exposure to yellow solar radiation causes his powers to return. Other than red solar radiation, using up his stored yellow solar energy (without continued exposure to yellow solar radiation) also causes Superman to lose his powers.^[28]

ELITE does too :-) and it's been there for quite a while, has old-fashioned limited scenery but has exact sun rise sun set times, depending on date and latitude, as well as Moon phases :-)