AerialPerspectiveMaterial

Internal mod name: PQSMod_AerialPerspectiveMaterial

AerialPerspectiveMaterial is a peculiar PQSMod. It appears to have no effect on the vertex height or color of the planet. Instead, it seems to partially configure the material of the planet's surface. It is suspected that the intent of this mod is to update certain shader parameters on every frame so as to correct any atmospheric effects.

Example

PQS
{
    Mods
    {
        // Source: Dres (built-in)
        AerialPerspectiveMaterial
        {
            atmosphereDepth = 150000
            globalDensity = -1E-05
            heightFalloff = 6.75
            oceanDepth = 0
            DEBUG_SetEveryFrame = True
            order = 100
            enabled = True
        }
    }
}

Properties

Property	Format	Description
atmosphereDepth	Decimal	The altitude of the atmosphere in meters.
globalDensity	Decimal	Unknown, presumed to be an atmosphere density multiplier.
heightFalloff	Decimal	The PQSMod appears to calculate atmospheric density at the altitude of the camera. This parameter seems to control the density falloff with altitude. The suspected behavior is localDensity = exp(-heightFalloff * observerAltitude).
oceanDepth	Decimal	The depth of the ocean in meters.
DEBUG_SetEveryFrame	Boolean	The parameters of this PQSMod are not expected to change dynamically. As such, it ususally suffices to set them only once when the planet gets loaded. Setting this parameter to true forces an update of globalDensity, heightFalloff and atmosphereDepth on every frame.