Version 0.8 Last Modified 10th April 2014

Sun shade

As VoltThor is now close to be finished, I thought it would be good to have a tool to welcome it that would help future track maker to convert their tracks to VoltThor

Sunshade© is an ASE2RV component that was (more or less) inspired of SkyX from OgreSDK project.

To put its work in few words, it's a full track "shader" (assign vertex color = shade) that uses sun's position to calculate shading concentration.

With command line, it's possible to set presets or sun's position (in degrees)

For instance, we have got a track named 'allonsy' (allonsy.ase), and we want to shade it to sunset, we write

ase2w -m -sunset allonsy.ase
(alternatively, you can use -ali or -hybrid (-hybrid or -kay , -kay is to remove -h=help problem)

A night scene is also possible with

ase2w -m -night allonsy.ase
(alternatively, you can use -ali or -hybrid (-hybrid or -kay , -kay is to remove -h=help problem)

For advanced shading (using sun's position, it's possible to include sun's current location (in degrees). For that we use the command line

-sunpos=value
Where values is a number from -90 to 90.

Below is comparison between different values

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