"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| okay, i checked some other light angles and the atmosphere looks fine in
| the middle right.  so i think i'll just choose my light sourse
| judiciously.
|
| ryan constantine wrote:
| >
| > i have lowered the clouds and made them whiter.  i have reduced the
| > atmosphere height and made it lighter overall.  the dark side is now
| > dark.  i'm wondering why the top and bottom center of the atmosphere is
| > well lit, but the right center isn't.  would that be a scattering
| > problem or an absorption problem?  or color intensity?

Seemed more an illusion, the difference in overall brightness of the regions
might make the top and bottom appear brighter than it actually is.  You say it
changed according to light angles but if it's scattering type 1 there
shouldn't be a change in a uniformly shaped media.  Type 2, 3,4 or 5 can.
To me the planet and clouds are still dark on the lit side.  Clouds being
about a rgb 0.5 average.

Bob

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