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Offline PandE

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« on: April 13, 2007, 05:17:07 PM »
I would like to see the sun a little less bright in the game. The sun seems to be the same brightness whether it is mid-day, sunrise, or sunset. Also, shouldn't the sun be a little more red and orange color at sunrise and sunset, plus dimmer?
 
I think I have to recommend revising brightness level of the sun. This may be fine for young people, but starting at age 40 and beyound the change in brightness has some nasty affects on our ability to see dark conditions. I've added a quick link for more information about us old farts as we age. Lets face it, a lot of (old farts) folks in here are over the age of 40.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blindworld2/MEDICAL/6-07-08-01.htm

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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2007, 03:31:50 AM »
I agree!
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2007, 12:49:54 PM »
ever heard of sunglasses?:cool: :D

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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2007, 02:05:18 PM »
I'd like to see the sun and moon fixed so that the horizon isn't at eye-level regardless of your altitude. It's silly watching the sun "rise" at 15,000ft.
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2007, 02:29:11 PM »
The sun DOES rise at 15k -- just earlier than it does on the ground.

I still remember one middle of the night flight I got to see the sunrise twice...once in the air, and later on the ground.
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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2007, 06:33:18 PM »
That'd be fine if it wasn't clearing the "horizon" at eye level while at 15k.
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« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2007, 07:18:18 PM »
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That'd be fine if it wasn't clearing the "horizon" at eye level while at 15k.


I know what you mean.

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« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2007, 07:55:44 PM »
In addition to any tweaking of heavenly orbs, though I like the "Bad Moon Rising" I think it is a little too big. Someone typed in the text buffer "I can see Armstrong's footprints."

The current sky looks uniformly light blue behind the sun and behind the moon when both are visible. For greater realism the sky should gradiate, getting darker as you look toward the moon, not black, just darker blue.

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« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2007, 09:11:30 PM »
Can you see where Superman tried to bury Nuclear Man?

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« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2007, 12:40:53 PM »
we need a dot command for that:      .sunglasses

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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2007, 06:52:17 PM »
i dont think it matters

Offline Cyg

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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2007, 04:36:52 PM »
Another related request would be if you are blinded by the sun, you should still be able to read your clipboard.

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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2007, 07:47:32 PM »
you should be able to hold your clipboard up to shield the sun.

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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2007, 10:40:05 PM »
hmmmm..good point

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« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2007, 10:17:09 AM »
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you should be able to hold your clipboard up to shield the sun.
Yea, it is a bit silly that the glare from sun that you can't see because its behind the clipboard!!! makes the map impossible to read.