Really great. I posted something, I thought, to the first post you made
I guess but I didn't see the moon picture in the other newsreader.
This makes me think the bump_map is too much for a Moon viewed from
Earth, yours look very much as if through binoculars. Guess the shadowy
place is a cloud? Or is that in the image_map? I see you mapped it
planar onto a sphere too, surprised to see that work out so well. Only
problem I see with it is the brown areas. Maybe thats on the image_map
itself too?
I'm definately goin to look into less bump_map. I'll have to rumage
through some of my moon photos here I've taken through the telescope.
As I said in my first post that appears to have vanished, I've got an
idea on fixing up the HF to make it more tree covered.
As for the addition of other city stuff, not much likely except maybe
the monorail train which runs from downtown Seattle to the Space Needle.
If I'm still at this thing in 2001 maybe a cityscape will emerge as
well, but I'm doubting everything for now. Other renders to do as well
you know.
Btw, the reason for a bright moon, I was thinking of photography and the
overexposure of bright objects by comparison to the darker. The Moon
usually only looks dimmer if near a hazy horizon or looked at a minute
by human eye or photographed by itself, so I was going for the time
exposure look. Which reminds me, I'll need to work out motion blur for
the elevators someday too.

Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> This one develops nicely!
> 
> Well the bare mountains in the back look a bit like the surface of the
> moon but this pic improves from posting to posting and shows all the
> dedication you put into it.
> 
> Will you add some Seattle scenery to it?
> 
> The moon IMHO is too bright. I work on a scene at the moment were I also
> added a moon.
> 
> I thought I may be of interest for you so I attached the part of the
> picture to this post.
> 
> Here's the code I used for it:
> 
> object {
> sphere {<0.5,0.5,0>,0.5
> pigment { image_map {tga "moont.tga" once interpolate 2 }}
> finish  {ambient 3.0}
> translate <-0.5,-0.5,0>
> scale 100
>   }
>  }
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Marc
> 
> P.S.:
> I canceled my first answer because the attached got messed up!
> Hopefully this one works!
> --
> Marc Schimmler
> 
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>  [Image]

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