POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Moon recipe : Re: Moon recipe Server Time
7 Aug 2024 21:22:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Moon recipe  
From: Remy Closset
Date: 5 Dec 2005 12:21:37
Message: <43947721$1@news.povray.org>
Nice light.
Perhaps a little groundfog would improve the scene




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> In alien beach (Bill Pragnell, 21-11-2005) described the way to make a 
> nice
> moon in the sky.
>
> I tried that successfully, until I tried to use radiosity too. The problem
> was that light was scattered back to the dark surface of the moon.
>
> The neat solution to that is to use also an interior_texture for the 
> object
> you use as sky sphere (which could be anything, including a vertical plane
> like in the image below).
>
> Make the side turned towards the universe (and the moon) totally dark (rgb
> 0) transmit doesn't matter; and the side towards the camera with the usual
> texture as described by Bill. Now you can use radiosity in your scene,
> without the lighting up of the shadowy part of the moon!!!
>
> Thomas
>
>
>


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