"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I love Povray animations.

You know what, we can feel your joy through the result it's motivational to
watch, and not only because of the music !
The colors of the space and planets may well be spot on.



> Does anyone have ideas or half-finished scripts for:
> - Earth surface
> - Moon surface
> - Cloudcover (during launch)


Here's some nitpicking:
* It feels your materials for lateral propulsion (whiter ones) are not emissive,
nor fading too transparency enough, too flat opaque.

*Your  solar panels materials are too ambient/emissive, reminding LCD screens
use fresnel and albedo with conserve_energy wherever possible... one specificity
with solar panels if they are modeled as simple geometries, should have very
(maximal) complex texture:
I would use a finish map trick (two textures with different finishes, in the
entries of a texture_map factored by a (cell/contrasted leopard) pattern with a
recusion level if possible to do the less regular, much smaller sparky freckles.
use this pattern to separate cells and freckles of higher reflectivity from
their intervals. halving that reflectivity within cells but bearing both a phong
*and* a specular with each half of that value, to indicate a layered
transparency but use irisdescence to indicate metallic reflectivity (very low
turbulence) in the cells finish use metallic keyword for specularities to have
another layer with metallic colored spec/reflections and each phong/specular
should have different size/roughness.

* I think for landing you need a very tiny slight vibration or shake both of the
camera and the ship (its solar panels could even buldge slightly with  respect
to main frame, currenly, everything is too clean to give any sense of weight and
the miracle of lifting/damping it.

* The cloud cover should use scattering(only) media, its the very situation
where you need them to look good as seen from afar and crossed through.
https://www.geocities.ws/evilsnack/tut01.htm
https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.4dad7d3b9549be2894d713cc0%40news.povray.org%3E/
https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4d5df00c%40news.povray.org%3E/

*(sorry I forgot a point, but I'm sure the next iterations will refocus :-P )

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