I don ' t know why you are getting aggro with me here . I think they put out a subpar product at too high of a price . I don ' t believe Sean Murray was trying to lie to people , but that doesn ' t matter as much as what actually happened . They put out something that didn ' t live up to what they allowed it to become in people ' s minds . They blasted it everywhere like it was AAA when it never was . They were so up their own asses at the scope of the thing they built they lost all sense of proportion , ironically enough . What I ' m not willing to do is make proclamations about their intent . I stand by what I said . As far as the skyboxes thing , I don ' t think there are any . Light refraction is measured in cumulative effect . They put in elements that all changed RGB and shading sliders that effected planets ' light depending on their relative density . They made it sound like they were modeling individual particles , which is BONKERS and not true . I can ' t find the article that talked about the actual lighting system , sorry .