In article <4225efa8@news.povray.org>, Art Flint <pfl### [at] stxrrcom> 
wrote:

> Christopher James Huff wrote:
> > Nothing revolutionary, just slow old media clouds.
> 
> Might be slow, but still looks good.

Here's some new ones, trying for something more like light rainclouds. 
rainyskylate.jpg was an attempt at a late afternoon sky, not quite what 
I intended but pretty nice looking. I'm starting to get better structure 
on the large clouds, which were pretty featureless in the earlier 
renders.

I'm still not quite satisfied with the horizon, it shouldn't be glowing 
so brightly, but I think some work on the atmosphere density falloff 
will fix that. In any case, the combination of haze and curvature do a 
pretty good job of fixing the "infinite horizon" problem. At least it 
should be useful for most scenes, where the horizon isn't visible. And 
since clouds are too distant to interact directly with most scenes, you 
could just use a background sky_sphere from a pre-rendered sky. (HDRI 
would be very useful here.)

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom>
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