Kolano wrote:One thing I do note in the video, the specular seems much yellower than it seems to be in Celestia.
That's because the default specular color setting in Celestia is wrong.
The actual color of sunglint varies from warm-gray to orangish, depending on how much atmosphere the reflected light passes through before reaching the observer. It never appears blue:
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES ... rgb143.jpg
That image and many more are available here:
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/index.html
(MODIS imagery at this level has gone through processing to minimize the visual effects of atmospheric attenuation and scattering.)
Astronauts report the sun appears the color of an arc lamp when viewed in space. But observers on Earth never see it that color because shorter wavelength blue light gets scattered out by the atmosphere. The more atmosphere light passes through the more shorter wavelength light gets scattered out. That is why sunsets are yellow-orange-red.
By the time sunglint has passed back out through the atmosphere a noticable amount of the shorter wavelength light has been scattered out, too.
Depending on your ocean color in Celestia you'll need to increase the amount of red and decrease the amount of blue in your specular reflection color setting.
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