Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> I believe I already mentioned it a while ago on povray.general, but this 
> might be a better place.  What I would like to see in POV-Ray 4 is the 
> possibility to define more than one scene in one POV-file with the 
> possibility to "layer" your scenes, meaning: use one scene as background for 
> the second, and so on.  This way, the problem mentioned in "Lighting problem 
> at extreme distances" (povray.general) could be solved by using one scene 
> for the astronomical objects, planets and sun, and another for the smaller 
> objects, like spaceships, with the first scene as background for the second.
> It would also be a lot easier this way to add a HUD to your image: just 
> create a HUD-scene (very easy to do with a orthographic camera) and use the 
> original scene as background.  Or lensflares.

I would simply make the distance limits a user-alterable value instead 
of something written directly in the code.  The other items can be done 
by modeling the scene to produce the desired results, often without 
terrible difficulty.  I make most of my subtitles by simply placing text 
in the right way, relative to the camera (although I could also do it 
with a post-processing render).

Regards,
John

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