Please let us know when you have the tutorial done, I would love to see it.
When I first started with POV and was learning sky_sphere I thought the same
thing: that fog would be better and more accurate for skies and atmospheres.
When you think about it, that's what an atmosphere really is right?   ;-]
However, being new I got frustrated and couldn't get it to work at all. You,
however, have done very nicely - your sky is beautiful! Good job!

KB-

Chris Maryan wrote:

> I have been playing around recently with the idea of creating skies made
> entirely with fog. The attached image is done using a constant fog for
> the dark blue part of the sky and a ground fog for the light part at the
> horizon.
> But why do this?
> The big advantage is having objects naturally fade into the sky with
> distance. A few days ago someone was asking how to get the dark side of
> the moon to fade into the sky and have the light part stand out. Many of
> the responses involved matching the ambient of the moon to the same
> colour as the sky (or maybe I misread something). The method in this
> image is probably more accurate and I think it looks more realistic. The
> dark side naturally fades into the sky if it is truly dark.
> Also, this is probably a more accurate representation of the sky than
> the blue background/ground fog method. It would seem that this would
> simulate the effects of the atmosphere more accurately.
>
> I think that's enough talk for now, I'm working on a tutorial on the use
> of fog for a range of atmospheric effects based on the discussions in
> this group. I expect to be able to find the time to do it either in mid
> June or early July.
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