In article <3c7bf4b4$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Michael Smith" <s64### [at] worldnetattnet> wrote:

> >Have you tried using reflection instead? Or just very tight specular
> >highlights?
> 
> Unless I'm missing something (remember I'm not an experienced
> user) I have been using specular highlights. Maybe not "very tight"
> though because I need to reproduce a specific appearance. I'll go
> back again and try using just reflection, but I'm almost 100% that
> I've tried it before and the results weren't what I wanted.

Well, if you're using the "specular" keyword, those are specular 
highlights. ;-)

If you are trying to get a more spread-out highlight but reduce the 
blending, you might try reflection (which won't fade at all by default), 
possibly in combination with very tight specular, and give the texture a 
fine normal. The normal will break up the reflection of the sun, and 
actually simulate the effects of real highlights, but it will be more 
on/off...there will be areas that are highlighted and areas that are 
blue, with no blending between them.

If it doesn't have to be Earth, you could use a procedural texture and 
planet, and simulate the actual depth of the oceans, but it sounds like 
you want Earth.

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