POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Questions about media : Re: Questions about media Server Time
1 Oct 2024 03:12:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Questions about media  
From: Darcy Johnston
Date: 20 Sep 2000 22:14:45
Message: <39c96f15$1@news.povray.org>
"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:39c4bd24@news.povray.org...
> "Darcy Johnston" <djo### [at] inamecomNOSPAM> wrote in message
> news:39c3ec84@news.povray.org...
> | I want to have my clouds on a spearate sphere
> | so that I can have shadows from the clouds for close ups.
> | My problem is that if I use media as my atmosphere (using scattering and
> | absorbtion), the atmosphere doesn't tail off the way it should if I use
a
> | 2nd sphere for my clouds, but works fine if I just used a layered
texture.
>
> Most probably a intervals thing.  Since the second spheres shadow has to
be
> figured for.  Try increasing that one or two integers if using MegaPov and
a
> few more if using official POV-Ray.

Well, I finally got around the trying it out and bumped my interval value
from 5 to 15 with no difference in the effect.
Should 15 be high enough?

Do any of the code hackers have any ideas as to why this might be?

Thanks for the suggestions,
Darcy


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