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7 Aug 2024 05:20:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet Houston in May  
From: EagleSun
Date: 1 Jun 2006 17:10:01
Message: <web.447f56bfbba3baab841337530@news.povray.org>
"Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote:
> Yes! Go on with many more planets. Hint: The strong blue atmosphere does not
> fit with the planet's over-all color. Use the PCP
> ("povray-binaries.utilities") to adjust the atmosphere colors. Currently,
> the un-fitting atmosphere color is the only thing what makes the entire
> image not looking as realistic as it could.

Is the blue in the ringed planet or the blue in the moon-planet?  For the
moon planet, I tried to make a bluish atmosphere where the lower altitudes
are quite foggy, thus the whitish appearance.  What do you suggest?

>
> Anodda hint: there is a keyword which switches the shadow-casting of an item
> off. I think, you should remove the shadows of the planetary rings, Eagle
> Sun. Usually, the rings consist only of relatively tiny pieces of ice,
> stones or dust. Their shadows should be much, much more descent, at least
> here in this scene.

Yeah, I thought of lightening the transparency of the rings.

>
> I also intend to create many more planets. Some habitable, some
> non-habitable. A wide variety of surface, atmosphere, orbital and lunar
> features is possible!

Hehe... let's fill this forum with planets :)


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