It would be nice if IPACS would do this.

[Murmur 3,941]

Atmo scattering is a well known algorithm nowadays (there are many free online docs on how to code it), is usually done with only a shader, requires relatively little time to implement (it's not a big feature like ATC or weather), should not impact performance significantly, but adds a lot to visual realism and beauty.

(My artist impression of atmo scattering in 2nd pic. I might have overdone it a bit, but you get the idea).

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by Murmur

[Guest]

Overdone a bit indeed 😉 but I get the idea and I'd like to see that too. This effect is the ONLY reason I use PTA with P3D: to get that nice, realistic blue color in the distance. Makes a world of difference and makes things look so much more real imho.

You might want to ask this on the IPACS forum but I think the answer will be they will look at this whenever they decide to create a weather engine. IPACS doesn't do little fixes or changes if they will have to be redone later on. And I think this is one of them. For them this is part of a big new feature: a weather engine.

I do understand they don't want to spend time on things that will have to be redone in the future but it can be frustrating, specially when the 'temporary fix' doesn't take much time. (I personally don't know at all how easy this is to implement but looking at PTA it indeed doesn't seem to hard to do.)

[HiFlyer 9,343]

So.... why dont you check to see if that weird color program I  can't remember the name of, works with Aerofly?

[Murmur 3,941]

Reshade or similar? But atmo scattering is something different from image post processing. It depends on distance and altitude and follows specific math formulas to look realistic.

[BaronKen 144]

No thanks... reminds me of the Flight engine and I disliked that look immensely.

[Murmur 3,941]

1 hour ago, BaronKen said:

No thanks... reminds me of the Flight engine and I disliked that look immensely.

I think you completely missed the point. That image was just a poor attempt I made with an image editor. Atmospheric scattering, done as it should, increases realism immensely. Here are some better examples of pics without/with atmo scattering:

And a real photo of Mt. Rainier from altitude:

Edited August 27, 2018 by Murmur