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29 Jul 2024 16:23:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Floating point accuracy  
From: stbenge
Date: 8 Feb 2011 15:29:05
Message: <4d51a791@news.povray.org>
On 2/8/2011 11:31 AM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> One of my works in progress is an orbital view of a planet with a satellite at
> relatively close range.  The problem is that I need a fairly fine detail on the
> satellite, so I've modeled it at 1 unit = 1 inch, but a planet of the same scale
> doesn't render properly.
>
> So I'm fishing for suggestions.

One thing that works for me is to create two scenes. In one scene, 
render the planet very small, with a correspondingly small camera angle. 
Copy the camera settings into another scene file, but with a new, 
desired camera angle. Map the image of the planet onto a box using 
Rune's illusion.inc.

Sam


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