oops thought id edited last post, ahh well.

last test just there has been a total eye opener. what i might do is not re colour the landscape, i may just apply my technique to the mip maps. which should keep everyone happy and adding atmosphere to our lovely game. it might be a bit dreamy, but thats character.

quickly tested evening time with the mip map shading, and well

SUMMER HAZE y'all! The blue does work ! \o/\o/\o/. Notice when lower down (2nd image) more saturation and detail is present through the blue haze which has been made grey -ish at dusk =perfect. didnt think that would work.





ive thought of a problem too where integration with the rest of the sim is concerned. the haze concept might not work too well in with aircraft without the mip map shading applied too. if they were applied it would then make sense. the effect would be fracken brilliant too. never in my life have i witnessed a professional developer play with mip maps at all. and this is the perfect playground for it. Effectivly like an additional dirextx shader.