New Feature Sitrec: Simulating Halos and Sun Dogs

[Giddierone]

Might it be possible to simulate atmospherics like sun dogs?

 

[Mick West]

I shall put my team of robots on the task!

 

[Mick West]

Do you have a specific test case?

 

[Mick West]

Done!

Version 2.84.0 (2026-06-15)

New Features

• Atmospheric Optics (Halos) (Lighting → Atmospheric Optics (Halos)): renders ice-crystal sky optics around the real Sun and Moon — a 22° halo, sun dogs, circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs, parhelic circle, 46° halo, sun pillar, and upper tangent arc by day, plus a faint Moon halo and moon dogs at night. Each effect only appears at the Sun or Moon elevation where it physically forms, and fades cleanly at the horizon. Turn it on with Show Halos (off by default).

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=99999999/Halo Test/20260615_195836.js

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=99999999/Moon Halo/20260615_195943.js