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28 Jul 2024 20:28:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with realistic sky?  
From: Warp
Date: 13 Aug 2007 16:55:54
Message: <46c0c55a@news.povray.org>
mtxcoll <mtx### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Also, I'm trying to use realistic proportions for the Sun in my scene,
> placing it at a distance of about 1 AU (1.5e11 m) from the observer and
> using a sphere of radius 7.0e8 m.

  There's no advantage in doing that compared to putting it closer and
making it smaller.

> However, the sphere isn't visible in my
> scene when I do this

  It's possible that POV-Ray is just not rendering it because it's too
far away. POV-Ray uses a limit value for how far objects can be for them
to be taken into account.

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                                                          - Warp


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