Sun Exlipse Just Curious

[nhagag 26]

Hi

I am just curious.

If you fly today with ActiveSky weather can you capture the Eclipse along the path from Oregon to South Carolina?

 

Bill

 

[PMDG777 231]

27 minutes ago, nhagag said:

Hi

I am just curious.

If you fly today with ActiveSky weather can you capture the Eclipse along the path from Oregon to South Carolina?

 

Bill

 

Active sky is weather. It doesn't affect sun/moon positions (which I don't think is simulated in P3D/FSX)

[neumanix 113]

The sun & moon positions are accurate in FS9 so they must be in FSX/P3D as well. No eclipse effect though, as in dimming of the light etc.

[mtrainer 136]

Would be easy to check, just by artificially setting your time and location in the sim.  While the moon may move into the path of the sun it's highly doubtful that they modeled any sort of dimming of the scenery that would normally accompany that.

Mark Trainer

 

[CaptainGabe 81]

Interesting question. All my years of simming never dawned on me to see if this is simulated. Doubt it.. But would be fun!

[molleh 451]

I checked.. didn't see anything through the eclipse time frame at one of the airports along the path of totality.

[Indy511 686]

The sun & moon are texture files and there is no new moon file since you wouldn't see it anyway in the sim.

[Iceman2 110]

Technically the eclipse is simulated simply by the fact the moon moves infront of the sun. That in itself is pretty cool but that is it as far as the effect goes.

They didn't simulate any darkening as already stated above.

pity.

[B777ER 2,486]

You should have asked in the Activesky forum instead of a forum for a addon aircraft. 

[bithunter_99 0]

the DX10Fixer can do cloud-shadows. What about Moon-Shadow or Earth Shadows on the moon?