On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:04:38 +0200, Reactor <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
>> I see now the specular on the sea makes the line. If I remove the
>>
>> specular, it looks right.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Nekar Xenos-
>> "The spoon is not real"
>
>
> I also recommend playing with the brilliance a bit - when I've done space
> scenes, I've felt that a brilliance greater than one more closely matches
> pictures of the earth from space.
>
Brilliance doesn't affect the line, but yes I did have quite a high  
brilliance value. I've now brought it down to 1.5.

> As for the ring not being transparent at the end, the shape cuts off  
> before the
> color_map does.  This would not be the case if you were using the  
> default wave
> type, but since it is a cubic wave, the 0.220 portion of the color_map  
> is not
> reached before the end of the shape.  You can either move it further in  
> or
> change to another wave type.
>

I've tried different wave types and I still have the same problem,  
everywhere were there is transparency on the rings with the planet showing  
through, the cloud media is gone, as if the max-trace level is too low. I  
have max_trace_level 256.


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"

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