On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:15:20 +0200, Kirk Andrews  
<kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:

> TC wrote:
>> "Kirk Andrews" <kir### [at] tektonartcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag  
>> news:4b96ae73@news.povray.org...
>>> Thanks for the nice comments.  Here's another, larger render.  This one
>>> I rendered with beta 35, and the media seems to have rendered quite
>>> substantially different.  I had to do some post-processing to make up
>>> for it.
>>  The dark side of the planet in this render features a few lights. Are  
>> these city-lights (intentionally placed) or stars from the background  
>> shining through or artifacts (from beta)?
>>
> Ah yes, I forgot to mention that.  The render did show some artifacts on  
> the landmasses on the dark side of the planet.  However, their placement  
> seemed realistic enough to serve as city-lights, so I boosted their  
> brightness and blurred them slightly in post-processing.

You could also just put a smaller black sphere inside to stop anything  
 from shining through. Did you try playing around with the isosurface  
accuracy setting?

-Nekar Xenos-

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