Guild Wars 2

Was just looking at the Sunrise particle effect, when I noticed you could see “through” the particle effect. It was transparent, and I could basically see things through it. When I pointed my camera view up at the sky, it showed the clouds in a darker light, but perhaps more shockingly, it showed the Sun as a smaller and extremely blue tinted! Has anyone else tried this with Twilight, or perhaps any other weapons with these particle effects?

Below are pictures of the “blue sun” and the normal sun.

Are you sure the clouds aren’t there? It seems like it might just be dark/distorted enough that their texture is lost. It looks like peering through thinly spread blue gel or something.

Basically what the sunrise and twilight do is create an effect that renders a skybox texture.

A skybox texture is basically an image of the sky that appears to move with the camera, much like the actual sky seems to do in real life. (For example if you stare at the moon from a car window, it seems to follow you all the way back home.)

The skybox texture rendered by the sunrise does not always match the one in the zone you are in. Interestingly it seems to keep the same sun position though.

So long story short, you aren’t really seeing anything through it. It’s just a different sky image with the same sun location.

As far as I know atleast.

Very informative! Thanks for the info!