Moon Billboards and Alpha Support
Posted: 05 Sep 2022, 05:24
From what I read about how the moons are handled in the documentation, it seems as though the alpha masks for each moon phase are unused. I was hoping that it would be possible to make the shadowed parts of the moons appear transparent, like how is described in https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Cosmology
But the way OpenMW (and I assume also vanilla) handles the moons means that you cannot make them have alpha transparency. Would it be possible to change how the moons are rendered and use the specific phase alpha mask instead of an additive blend on top of the full circle alpha mask? I understand that in vanilla it doesn't have transparent moon shadows either, but perhaps some sort of ability to modify how the moons appear in game, maybe the ability to add more or less, change orbit etc with Lua is a possibility?
But the way OpenMW (and I assume also vanilla) handles the moons means that you cannot make them have alpha transparency. Would it be possible to change how the moons are rendered and use the specific phase alpha mask instead of an additive blend on top of the full circle alpha mask? I understand that in vanilla it doesn't have transparent moon shadows either, but perhaps some sort of ability to modify how the moons appear in game, maybe the ability to add more or less, change orbit etc with Lua is a possibility?