"Marc van den Dikkenberg" <exc### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:13:37 -0700, "Kevin Loney" <klo### [at] pt2mcom> wrote:
>
> >Started this 4 or 5 days ago and finally got this far, my main problem
are
> >the radiosity artifacts below the casings. Second proplem is the media I
> >used for the sun, needs a little tweaking. Anyone have any
> >suggestions/comments?
>
> Obviously the sun isn't to scale, but it would be pretty hard to get a
> recognizable overview of the entire scene it it would be.

Exactly what I was thinking

> Any reason why you've chosen to not put the sun on a pedestal, like you've
> done to all the planets?

If i'd used a pedestal for the sun then to make it look correct, I would
have had to use photons, I've been trying to avoid that, I've benn rendering
the final for the last 3 days.

> Also, I notice that you've included Earth's moon, but left out the moons
of
> the other planets...

phobos and deimos the moons of mars are odd shapes and I really don't want
to model them, second I was having trouble locating good satellite images of
the other moons.

--
Kevin
http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/

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