I would love to see something like this inside of Keyshot. Could really use this right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WPmlkaut6Us
Or at least sun simulation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq681ATjjlw
I remember seeing something that Henrik was working on that did this in realtime awhile ago. I believe he even made a standalone sun simulation app but I can't find it anywhere.
It is the Velux daytime visualizer: http://viz.velux.com/
We will look into it, maybe even for v5.
Yes sir, thats the one:D Hendrik's star simulation is fascinating as well! I can't wait to see how your procedural solution turns out!
What might be a quick solution is to add the ability to accept a sequence of HDR's. Today I used Ozone from EON and rendered a lat/long EXR animated sunset sequence from 3dsmax/VRAY. Now I just need to setup a macro that incrementallyloads. Too much work, but curiousity has the best of me. I can send over a set if you guys are interested.
Thanks for considering this Thomas and crew!