I was looking at the problem of glass again, reflections for cockpit instruments and improving the canopy and TADS optics. FSX manages to do so much with so little (a small 128x128 DDS) for shiny metal parts, such as chrome props it was time to look at adding cube mapping again.

I know this has been added to Leadwerks 2.40 but the corona problem doesn't seem to be fixed yet. Retro-fitting cube-maps to 2.31 is an easy task and the river mesh material was updated (we don't use the single height infinite plane as it doesn't work with real-world topography). As water goes it's not fancy, real-time reflection and surface animation for high-speed machines during the polish end-phase. River surface cube-mapping matches the environment lighting and thus provides a simple and economic effect. There's only one river that runs east-west.

Shiny chrome parts and subtle glass reflections should be trivial to add (when I get the alpha component sorted out).

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