On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:55:47 +0100, "Trole" <tro### [at] pttyu> wrote:

>I want to create something like picture on the entrance page of
>www.planetside.co.uk
>I want to create a moon (or two moons, or giant planet, whatever) over the
>landscape, behind the clouds. This is effect that you can see if the moon is
>visible during the daylight. You can see white halfmoon, with craters and
>stuff, and the other half in the color of sky.
>Is it possible without cheating (I mean no discs, Boolean objects and stuff
>like this)? I am aware that this effect is result of atmosphere's
>influence on light (the reason why the sky is blue). Can it be simulated in
>POV?

Make the moon the color of the sky, give it a high ambient and make
the craters with a bump map. This way you won't see any bumps in the
shadow but you'll see the craters in the lit area. Hope this works



Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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