August 6 2011 Development Update

[albx]

Originally Posted by zxwings

If it's possible to simulate the sky's illumination effect on the cockpit shadows, their darkness will vary inside the cockpit. This is absent from the current creenshots.

In the AFTER screenshot attached below, the long narrow shadow enclosed by red lines ought to be darker than the shadows enclosed by yellow lines, because much less light from the sky (not the sun) will reach the red-line shadow's surface.

do you know how many calculations are needed to do what you say? This is a flight simulator, not a 3DS Max to render photorealistic scenes.