Ah, I see how that would work, it sounds good.

Incidentally, I had a play with scattering media type 5, with eccentricity set
so that the atmosphere became much brighter when looking through it towards the
light source. I never tried it in an animation but it might be able to get that
nice halo effect you see in sunrise photos from orbit.

I can't wait to see the full thing :) but I guess I'll have to...

--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> I've used scattering before, then someone mentioned
> the lack of atmosphere on the shadowside. What I
> did now was use emission for this scene, but plan
> on doing something more elaborate for the actual sunrise
> (where the sun really rises from behind the earth). This
> scene is still part of that sequence, so it is a sunrise.
> This is also tried to be conveyed with the sun moving to

>
> For the sequence as a whole, camera fly-bies are a
> no-no, its supposed to become one long zoom-out,
> with nice fades and "spectacular" scenes (the quotes
> referring to what I'm actually able to produce :-)
> But the movie in its whole will probably have some
> camera movement in the initial and final sequences,
> where part of the story is told.
>
> --
> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
> > Looks great! I'd like to see the camera fly past from the night side to
> the day
> > side so we actually see the sun rise and can see the light side of the
> earth. It
> > confused my when I saw a posting called "sunrise" then I open it and the
> camera
> > starts moving the wrong way!
> >
> > One small niggle: It looks like the earth's atmosphere is still blue on
> the dark
> > side of the planet, is that just light coming round the far side or have
> you
> > actually got a blue sky at night? Also I suggest using scattering media
> with
> > coloured absorption, because you can tune it to give sunset colours in the
> sky
> > between the light and dark sides. I've used it in a few of my renders and
> I
> > think it looks cool :)
> >
> > --
> > Tek
> > http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> >
> >
> > "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
> > news:3efc4937@news.povray.org...
> > > So, this is the final 600 frame = 24 second animation.
> > > The very last part I don't like, when the sun gets stretched
> > > just a little too much.
> > >
> > > Anyways, in case anyone is wondering, this scene is
> > > planned to be part of a long-term (and I really mean
> > > LOOOOOONG-term :-) project, for which I plan
> > > on using extensive/excessive fades from one scene to the
> > > next. The entire storyboard isn't in my head yet, but there
> > > are some parts which will remain there no matter the
> > > story...
> > >
> > > Well, enjoy. Since the setup is pretty much finished for
> > > this scene, I'll probably move on and create the actual
> > > sunrise (with sun peeking over the earth's rim, with a
> > > closer camera), which should incorporate a nice blinding
> > > effect when the sun first peeks... They typical stuff, you
> > > know... :-)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tim
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Nikias v2.0
> > > Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> > > Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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