Ahh !!! Ohh !!! These are eggs !! That's why thought the sun had a 
shadow ! Much of my remarks fall into obslescence then ...

I like the idea of eggy-planets, eggs express the potentiality for life ...

JC

JC (Exether) wrote:
> Cool image.
> I won't bother you with scale considerations, but I have a few astonomic 
> remarks:
> - Where is mercury ? (or where is Venus ?) There should be two planets 
> within Earth's orbit.
> - Mars has two small satellites.
> - Jupiter has some 13 or 14 satellites, but it's true that it wouldn't 
> look so nice to model them all. Saturn has a lot of satellites too in 
> addition to the rings.
> - Uranus and Pluto are missing, they are a bit further away but you 
> could put them in the upper right corner.
> - The sun shouldn't have a shadow on it as it is itself a high intensity 
> light source, you should try to give it a ambient of 1.0 and even 
> simulate the intense light with some media. You should also set the it 
> to be the main light for your scene.
> 
> I know that you just want to model the asteroid belt, but I can't really 
> say nothing when whole planets are missing.  :-)
> 
> As for the belt, you can try a lot (1000-10000) of little spheres, but 
> that will be difficult to animate, so you can try some spheres and a 
> toric media to simulate smaller particles. If you find spheres too 
> regular you can use isosurfaces.
> 
> JC
> 
> 

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>> See "Making an Asteroid Belt" (30 Jun. 2003) at p.g.
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>>    Sputnik
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