> Is that smoke coming up from the creature, or a darker cloud? The white
> clouds look very good!

It's coming out of a fissure in the ground in the distance. The clouds, as I
said, are everything but cut and pasted from gilles tran's code, so thanks
to him =)

> But the clouds don't light up the ground as much as I would expect even on
> an alien planet (if the laws of physics are the same).. On the other hand,
> it will wash out the contrast in this scene, if you reduce the shadows..
So
> realism probably won't be good here. The ground texture would have to be
> substancially different.. Never mind, the balance of light between the
> ground and clouds are right.

Yeah, I'll probably put some slight radiosity in the final version, though I
might tone down the sky, save the rad data, and then bring it up, using the
saved data.

 - Slime
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