Dear developer team, for quite a while I have been working on refraction and extinction, time allowing. In December, Fabien has re-worked my refraction attempts and put it into the coordinate matrix processing. Very elegant, and it now works also for planets, but it introduced a problem with illumination (bright side of planets/moon don't point to the sun), the reason of which I have not found yet.
The other part, extinction, depends on object altitude and seemed easy enough to implement at least for stars, but something in the star catalogs and data handling escaped my attention. In effect, there are bright stars which vanish suddenly in far too high altitude, not as 1-Pixel-dots, but with large dot size. I am afraid I am stuck, and would require help by more experienced Stellarium developers. I have added a small extra panel for the atmosphere details settings as requested/commented by one of you in December, so the main settings panel is again small enough for netbooks. I think it is interesting to "play" with these important effects. You can have a look in my branch, https://code.launchpad.net/~georg-zotti/stellarium/refraction My changes and history are described in CHANGES-FROM-TRUNK.txt I am happy to help and explain my thoughts and what should be done, in order to get that finished and merged. I unfortunately don't have the time to finish this alone. Any volunteers? Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
