ambient is zero.  the one light source is a circular 3by3 area light
with orient on. there is no light behind the planet.  radiosity was on. 
nearly all of the pictures i've seen lately of our planet show faint
details on the dark side just like the small pic from first contact.  i
assume it's light bouncing around the atmosphere.  i also have my light
set to rgb<1,1,1>*2.  *3 was too bright, so i might have to go in
between.  i may try to increase the cloud color above one.  that seems
like a good idea, thanks.

Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Progressing well.  It's as if the clouds (and planet?) are being lit by a
> another light, so maybe it's the diffuse from that.  The 3D of the clouds
> looks nice.  Maybe Alberto meant 'diffuse' brightness and not 'brilliance' but
> that could help too by decreasing the lightness at the terminator while
> getting a lighter sun-facing side.  Not sure this would be of help but if you
> use larger than rgb 1 color values for the clouds and drop the 'ambient' to
> zero (or nearly so) it might do better for the shadow side, and lit side too
> for that matter.
> 
> Bob
> 
> "ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:39580235.46497A73@yahoo.com...
> | still coming along.  not quite there yet, but looking better.  one
> | image is the old one(gray clouds), two are new, the others are reference
> | shots from star trek first contact.  you can see that the clouds on the
> | dark side can be seen well on the far shot.  the clouds aren't quite the
> | same so i still need to work on that.  and it looks like i need to
> | lighten my atmosphere to a lighter blue.  other than that, comments?

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