Is it doable to pressure rendering of an object that is past the far clipping airplane? For instance, extra real looking “area” rendering, the place a big mesh akin to a planet must be rendered even past the far clipping airplane.

As a software program developer in one other discipline (however with an curiosity in video video games!) I’ve solely a really fundamental understanding of rendering engines – so please excuse if any of my assumptions on this query are incorrect:

In each sport I’ve performed that features area, normally one can inform the “trick” they’re utilizing to render massive objects akin to planets, is to make them smaller and transfer them nearer to the digicam such that they are shut sufficient as to not be past the far clipping airplane. This works type of effectively, however the phantasm breaks if one strikes the digicam left and proper, and may see that the “massive object” is definitely a lot nearer than the feel would have you ever consider.

What are the drawbacks (or possibly it is simply technically infeasible?) to easily making these massive objects nearer to actual measurement, inserting them effectively past the far clipping airplane, and forcing the rendering engine to render them it doesn’t matter what? I’m conscious that this might be a superb candidate for simply being a skybox, however what when you wished one thing extra advanced, like the item rotating, or shifting round?

As a follow-up, I’m additionally curious if there are any rendering engines which are designed to accommodate one thing like this. Technical solutions, hyperlinks to papers, or simply plain math on the topic is vastly appreciated!