I've been waiting to try that particular include out. Couldn't help but
think of my scene here to use it on too. Maybe it won't be until 2001
after all.

Ken wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> > As for the addition of other city stuff, not much likely except maybe
> > the monorail train which runs from downtown Seattle to the Space Needle.
> > If I'm still at this thing in 2001 maybe a cityscape will emerge as
> > well, but I'm doubting everything for now. Other renders to do as well
> > you know.
> > =Bob
> 
> I recently talked to Chris Colefax (via email) and he mentioned that
> his cityscape generating include file is very near completion. The
> use of his new file may be just what the scene doctor ordered :)
> 
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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Really great. I posted something, I thought, to the first post you made
> I guess but I didn't see the moon picture in the other newsreader.
> This makes me think the bump_map is too much for a Moon viewed from
> Earth, yours look very much as if through binoculars. Guess the shadowy
> place is a cloud? Or is that in the image_map? I see you mapped it
> planar onto a sphere too, surprised to see that work out so well. Only
> problem I see with it is the brown areas. Maybe thats on the image_map
> itself too?

It's a cloud! I tried to send you an email after I messed up the
attachment but the AOL postmaster told me that they couldn't find you! A
bump_map for this distance is maybe too much. What I did was some work
on the image. The image can be found at
http://spaceart.com/solar/raw/moon/ . It was stated that this image has
been made from Apollo. So it looked very much B&W. I changed the colors
to a more yellowish tone but this is really a matter of taste. 
The second thing I did was to turn this pic into a Targa file with an
alpha channel. This way it gets the shadow at the left side that has the
color of the sky.

Marc
P.S.: I try to send this as an email too! Just to check if I can reach
you.
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So sorry about the wrong email address, thanks so much for pointing it
out. Didn't realize I had left the "z" out. I've also added an emailing
address to my signature file so maybe any I get will start with a PoV in
the subject line so I don't carelessly delete any incoming mail.
Anyway, back to the moon, not literally of course.
Yeah, the yellowish color looked fine to me. The color depends on so
many factors in reality anyway as you said. I'd place yours at 10
degrees above the horizon for a typical evening around here. But the
moonrise can be a deep orange-red and lunar eclipses any color of the
rainbow (less green, can't recall ever seeing a true green, cyan but not
green).
I figured yours must've been partially cloud-covered.
Obviously a photograph like you used is very well suited to this sort of
thing. I'm always thinking it must be a wrappable image_map on a 3D
sphere to be good and I'm wrong. Like I said before, think I'll get my
poster-sized photo digitized with the camera and apply it instead to see
how it works out. Thanks on 2 counts.


Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> It's a cloud! I tried to send you an email after I messed up the
> attachment but the AOL postmaster told me that they couldn't find you! A
> bump_map for this distance is maybe too much. What I did was some work
> on the image. The image can be found at
> http://spaceart.com/solar/raw/moon/ . It was stated that this image has
> been made from Apollo. So it looked very much B&W. I changed the colors
> to a more yellowish tone but this is really a matter of taste.
> The second thing I did was to turn this pic into a Targa file with an
> alpha channel. This way it gets the shadow at the left side that has the
> color of the sky.
> 
> Marc
> P.S.: I try to send this as an email too! Just to check if I can reach
> you.
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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