Jim Kress wrote:
> Why do the mountains on the rendered planet look like giant zits?
> They look all out of scale relative to the size of the planet.

That's 'cuz they used 25x vertical exaggeration for the long shots
and 5x for the closeups.  Earth would look funky if you did that,
too.

BTW, I myself thought of making a 3D model of Mars when I first
saw the MOLA images a few months ago, but encountered a problem
when I realised that POV doesn't do spherical heightfields.

Doh!

Though I could try bump map, see how that works...
-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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