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SkyAtmosphere

Since 0.6Changed in 0.7
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Fields

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultAllowed valuesDescription
presetAtmospherePresetnoearth-clear, hazy, polluted, stylisedNamed atmosphere: earth-clear (the default: clean air), hazy (three times the aerosols), polluted (dense absorbing aerosols, a brown low-contrast sky) or stylised (bluer and more saturated than Earth).
planetRadiusKmnumbernoRadius of the planet, kilometres, within 100..100000. Default 6360 (Earth). A small planet curves its horizon sooner, which a large world notices.
groundAlbedonumberno0How much light the planet's surface reflects, within 0..1. Default 0.3. It lights the sky from below and is the ground seen past the level's edge.
hazenumberno1Scale on the preset's aerosols (Mie scattering), within 0..10. Default 1; 0 is air with no aerosols, 3 a hazy day.
visibilityKmnumbernoMeteorological visibility, kilometres, within 0.1..1000: how far a dark object can be seen against the horizon sky. It sets the air's total extinction at ground level (Koschmieder: 3.912 / visibility per km, of which Rayleigh scattering is the molecular share and the aerosols the rest) and overrides haze. Absent keeps the preset's aerosols (earth-clear is about 217 km); 50 is a clear day, 25 a typical one, 10 a hazy one, 1 fog.
aerialScalenumbernoArtistic scale on the aerial perspective only, within 0..100: the air between the camera and a surface is drawn this many times as dense, as if every distance were this many times longer, so a world a few kilometres across can show the layered, blue-shifted depth of a real range tens of kilometres deep. Default 1 (physical); 0 is no aerial perspective. The sky itself, the sun's colour and the ambient light are unchanged. Combine with visibilityKm: 10 at 90 km visibility hazes a 4 km valley about as 9 km visibility would, without greying the sky.

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