Update from the ORTS team

[High Iron]

Very nice. Could you imagine the fun an astronomy nut could have with that, if he/she felt to program it for actual celestial position and phases based on the system time and date. Very cool indeed.

Cheers,
Thad

[Turbo Bill]

It was mentioned but the math was mindbending. Those stars do have some constelations in them IIRC.

[BNSFfan]

Now all we need is a global Meterology database for area's that offer it so you can run in realtime weather conditions! But that is far away..

[ricksan]

Keep in mind that we're building a railroad simulator.

The use of mathematics to plot the position of the moon and sun does nothing more than relieve route builders from having to specify that information themselves.

The star field is in fact accurate for the northern and southern hemispheres, but that's only because it uses accurate texture maps. The position of the star map, as applied to the night-sky dome, is arbitrary.