If for some reason some can't see all three attachments, know that the
first one is the only one worth the download (well number three too
but not as much). It's beyond me why Netscape 4.5 can't read this
message, though.

Pic 3 is Pic 1 without a layer of sky (commented out a plane). Pic 2
is a feeble attempt to do sunrays, but they either filled the whole
screen or turned out as they are now. I re-rendered it with better
media sampling and higher resolution. Added a haze (looks fine to me)
and turned down scattering and saturation a bit.

The water can be fixed ( i think) by using a planar normal_map in the
+z (in this case) direction so that all ripples disappear after some
distance (500 units in the case).

I will post the sources as I keep track of version changes, but
currently I am ashamed to do so :) Also,the news server is almost dead
today (took me 30 min to get today's headers!) so maybe in a couple of
days I'll post them. For now, the trick to convert atmo to media is
simple : "extinction 0" . At least that's what I've found out -- after
three hours of fiddling with the scaterring value to actually see
something, it then took me 30 min a pic after I turned extinction off.

As for focal blur, well, this beast took 11 hours to render on my
better computer, so... you want to peek at the stuff before y2k, right
:)?

Peter

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