"Hughes, B." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
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> Ugh... that's one of my little contributions. That room with a window
isn't
> as simple as it looks. Simple to get the media looking good, I mean. Media
> seldom is easy when it comes to using it under varying circumstances, as
you
> must know by now.

Well, it'll be a long time before I decide to use media again, if that says
anything. :-)

> Ok. Wow, that is quite a file so I was glad to find out that the fix might
> be as uncomplicated as reducing the scattering value by a factor of ten to
> 0.01 instead of the current 0.1. Apparently it's only a matter of a
largish
> box in which the media scatters too much, thus making for a thick density.
> You might need to tweak it further, for instance the 'extinction' might be
> able to go higher or add slight 'absorption'.

All Greek to me but I'll give it a whirl. Thanks so much for the
suggestions. I'm very, very happy to hear it might be an easy fix! :-)

> Unfortunately, asking for help with media can entail all sorts of "in the
> eye of the beholder" stuff, so you might get varying opinions (even from
> yourself) until it looks the way you want it.

The eye of this beholder is just abou frazzled, so I don't think it can
afford to be too picky. Unfortunately I know that the eyes of the beholders
that will be looking at this animation are going to be very critical indeed,
so I'm striving for perfection (and sometimes failing).

> My question to you would be: is that stretched background image what you
> intended? I'm guessing it's Earth clouds.

Yes, that's what it is. At that close of a camera angle it does appear
pixelated (I think my original image was 800x600). Too late to change now,
though - and I haven't gotten around to reading the part of the
documentation on sky spheres yet, so I don't know too much about layers and
all that. Eventually I'll get to it.

Thanks so much, Bob. You don't know how much frustration you've saved me. My
family thanks you, too. ;-)

-Mike
"I don't need help. I need a personal PovRay consultant."

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