On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:15:15 -0500, GrimDude wrote:
>
>"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
>news:3904F2CA.AB0FE632@pacbell.net...
>>
>> The plane is really coming along nicely. The sky.... While I waited for
>> this monster to download I spent a lot of time looking at the sky and
>> trying to figure out what bothered me about it. I think the thing that
>> bothered me the most is that the light source (moon ?) looks like it
>> is inside the earths atmosphere rather than outside of it. The yellow
>> coloration of the clouds doesn't really seem to fit in well either.
>> I would like to see them a little whiter in color. The water is nearly
>> black with a reflection of the light but the sky is too bright for this
>> to look real. No wait. What I really hate about this is how well you
>> modelled the airplane. I'm sorry but no one is that good :)
>>
>> --
>> Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
>> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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>My apologies for the size. I thought it would be better received. :(
>
>You are right, of course, Ken. The clouds are a simple texture applied to a
>cylinder. The (moon?) ;) object was supposed to be a sun. It is inside of a
>sky_sphere, which has all of the effects you noticed. I can fix that, I
>think.
>
>Controlling the light in this image is really bugging me :)
>
>The model still has a few problems ;) Feel better? :)

I just tried gamma correction and now think I see what you're 
seeing.  The land is visible now and the plane looks a bit too
bright, like you say the light is going to be real tricky to 
controle here. 

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