I agree with Bob that what you saw before was just an illusion due to the
contrast between the atmosphere and the planet. Where the planet is fading
away, the atmosphere looks brighter, when compared to where the planet is
well lit.

Darcy

"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?  i used Darcy's
> > tutorial for the atmosphere.  at the scale i'm using (7200), i had to
> > change the first scattering density entry to [rgbf<.1,.1,.1,1>] or it
> > wouldn't show up. the address of Darcy's tutorial can be found as a
> > responce to my previous post.

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