Although SilverLining includes some very complex physical simulations of extraterrestrial light passing through the atmosphere and clouds, using it within your application is very simple. All you need to do is initialize SilverLining to tell it some information about the outdoor conditions you wish to simulate, and then call a single method at the beginning of your frame rendering, and another at the end.
SilverLining is designed to easily plug into any renderer written on top of OpenGL, DirectX 9, or DirectX 10, including popular scene graphs such as OpenSceneGraph and Ogre3D. All you need is the ability to call SilverLining when your frame begins, and again when your frame is over and you're ready to draw translucent objects in the scene. Users who require lower-level access also have the underlying cloud objects available so you can draw them individually within your scene graph, and licensed customers receive full source code if even lower-level access is required. We provide libraries for Windows, Linux, and MacOS developers, and customers have successfully ported SilverLining to the XBox360.
This documentation will get you started. In addition to the class reference information included here, some additional information is also available:
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