POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Clouds Don't Cast Shadow : Re: Clouds Don't Cast Shadow Server Time
3 Aug 2024 10:16:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Clouds Don't Cast Shadow  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 13 May 2004 05:38:45
Message: <40a34225@news.povray.org>
"Sascha Ledinsky" <sas### [at] userssourceforgenet> schreef in bericht
news:40a33b95@news.povray.org...
> In some cases using one (or more) y planes will produce better looking
clouds
> than a sphere. And it's easy to animate too - you can translate the
texture in
> x/z to simulate wind and in y to make the clouds change their shape...
> -sascha

Or, alternatively, use different nested spheres, but squashed in the
y-direction. You can rotate the spheres too. Condition is that the spheres
be very large (and very squashed). Towards the horizon they look somewhat
better than planes.

Thomas


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