[Marble-devel] [patch] adding menu entry for sun shading options

[Torsten Rahn]

On Friday 15 February 2008 23:23:26 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 01:38:16 Christian Banik wrote:
> One thing, though...  If the clouds are on, it feels a bit odd if the
> clouds suddenly end at the night/day border.  Perhaps something you could
> look into? 

Well, I just looked into the issue and it isn't as easy to do as you might 
think, Inge. It would require major refactoring of the MergedLayerPainter to 
get it right. That's a drawback of the current approach in the code but it's 
certainly something I personally will look into for 4.1 (or David who created 
this code) but it 

- is definetely hard to do right now and requires some hacks if not done 
correctly (which means that you'd take the presence of the LMC into account).
- should rather be done once we have finished our work on the LMC.

So if you think you got a solution to this problem I'd like to ask you to 
discuss it with me first. And if you think it's too hard then there's no 
problem about that because I feel that this problem is indeed a bit hard to 
deal with. So in that case you might want to have a look into the 
other "Category Easy"  or into one of the "Category Medium" problems. Of 
course you are free to look at any stuff and we very much appreciate any 
patches that improve Marble. So make sure you take something that you 
enjoy ;-)

Regards,

Torsten