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  Re: objects not rendering because of distances, etc  
From: Maurice
Date: 31 Dec 2004 18:36:01
Message: <41d5e261$1@news.povray.org>
EagleSun wrote:
> Hi yall,
> 
> I'm trying to render the sun and earth... the problem is, if I set the sun
> far away properly to 149 million kilometers (scale = 1000), or even 149
> billion meters (scale = 1), the sun won't render at all, but the object
> details on earth look nice.

The obvious question here would be whether you are sure that you have 
the size of the sun and earth right. But I'm guessing that is way too 
obvious, so that must be okay. In that light (pun not intended) I'm 
wondering were the camera is, relative to the sun and earth?


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