On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:17:40 +0200, Anthony D. Baye  
<Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:

> Just started this last night (That would be Wednesday for me).  It seems  
> to be
> coming along nicely, but I'm having a few problems.
>
> First, I like the starfield, but I'd like to have more color, possibly a  
> nebula,
> maybe a few close stars.
>
> Second, the planet.  It's supposed to have an atmosphere, but I can't  
> seem to
> get it to work.  The scale is 12 units to 100 meters or 3:25 scale,  
> which makes
> the gate roughly 6km across.  I'm currently looking at the gate, which  
> is in
> orbit around the planet at a distance of 35,768km
>
> in actual units, the planet has a radius of 63,780ft.
>
> I'm considering going to a 1:100 scale.
>
> Third, if you look closely at where the stars appear on the dark side of  
> the
> planet, it seems to be out of round, but I may be mistaken.
>
> Other than that, I have some work to do on the textures, and I want to  
> make the
> gate look more complex. (I've never really been good at greebling)
>
> Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> A.D.B.


For the atmosphere and stars you could look at my code here:
http://news.povray.org/op.u61y64hyufxv4h@xena


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-Nekar Xenos-

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