In article <3a10bc2a@news.povray.org>, "GrimDude" 
<gri### [at] netzerocom> wrote:

> So, I used a glow for the sun with a radius of 1/2 S.D. in p.u. (109 
> pu). Obviously, the realistic scale caused a problem with usefulness 
> given resolution restraints (for one), but worse yet the Stars 
> post_process method overwrites the glow, as well as the dark side of 
> the Earth (during eclipse from camera viewpoint). In other words, it 
> draws over the glow and the Earth positions. Uncool!

The stars post process is nearly useless, it was just an experiment and 
never really intended to be used in a real scene. Post processes would 
be extremely limited when it comes to stars anyway.(reflection, 
transparent objects, fog, sky_spheres, etc....)
I suppose it could be useful for creating an image_map to use on a 
sky_sphere...but that is about all. I will put this on the list of 
things to fix, though...

However, your problems with the stars overwriting the earth sound 
strange...the filter I released should only overwrite "infinite" areas, 
which don't hit anything nearer than Max_Distance. How far away is your 
Earth?

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Christopher James Huff
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