Developers will present a more realistic night and an advanced lighting system.
1C Game Studios continues to talk about \"Korea. IL-2 Series\". They recently released a diary dedicated to working on night lighting.
The game uses a completely new renderer, so we had to develop an approach to the night scene almost from scratch, revising old solutions.
The new lighting system takes into account physical features, land geometry and other parameters:
The night picture in \"Korea\" is radically different from everything that was in our previous projects. The new lighting and atmosphere system in the graphics engine is based on physical principles and takes into account the real geometry of the earth, atmosphere, distribution of aerosols and atmospheric density with height. This in itself gives a number of interesting and very beautiful effects at the border of day and night, including different levels and shades of lighting at different altitudes, the shadow of the earth in the volume of the atmosphere, physically based realistic shades of the sunset sky, and much more.
The developers of \"Korea. IL-2 Series\". noted that the picture in the flight simulator is created not only by natural lighting from the sun and moon - \"a huge number of artificial light sources\" are also used. For example, it can be light from cars, city or airfield lights, fires and illuminating ammunition:
Previously, we could afford to illuminate objects at a distance of no more than 400 meters from the light source, but now this figure has been increased by 7 times, and in area - by more than 50 times. The game will feature three types of illuminating ammunition - the Soviet SAB-100 with 2 million candles and the American M26 and Mk8 with 800 and 500 thousand candles. In the future, after the release of the game, there is an idea to try to implement illuminating ammunition for artillery, so that at the front line at night the player sees the work of illuminating shells.
Aircraft received an improved effects system, including new light sources:
Navigation lights, flashes of engine pipes, exhaust of a jet nozzle during start-up - all this illuminates the aircraft itself and objects around it.
