Hey all! I took the excellent advice offered and actually managed to come up with the moon in the scene....New problem - no matter where I adjust intensity (up or down) in a myriad of attempts all I come out with is a circle - no moon looking texture (I tried both with and without the moon image) Well O. K. then! Where am I going wrong this time? Thanks to all for the last input, with each attempt I create more eye-hazzards! Bert

One problem you will find with the Bryce moon is you can never get it bright enough, it usually stays dull. I'm surprised you can't get the moon picture to show, not sure what's wrong there. You might want to try and put a moon texture onto a sphere and put it waaaaay back in the background. You will have more control over how it looks.

I agree with Aldaron. You should be able to find a hi res moon map on one of the many NASA image sites. It may take some looking to locate one, but it will be worth it in the end. Also try browsing the Bryce textures here in freestuff and at other sites as somebody may have already mapped the moon to a sphere.

Attached Link: http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html

High-res moon texture: http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html

Attached Link: moon maps

Here is a link to some moon maps.

Hey, we got the same link :)

Attached Link: Hi res earth maps ( and clouds )

Here is a link to hires earth maps.

Crowd! It took some time but I managed to download the maps from the links, Thanks! Next step - how to apply it! I'll let ya'll know how progress goes - Hang in there! Bert

Heyload: It had been a long time since I had tried to make a pic using the Bryce Moon, and couldn't remember it being a problem before, but when I set up a scene, sure enough I had the same problem you described. After fumbling around in the sky lab I finally realized I was looking at the sun, not the moon. when I switched them so that the sun was at the bottom of the sky circle and the moon symbol came up, sure enough, there was the moon as you can see by the accompaning pic. Maybe this is the problem you're having? Good Luck! Tjohn

BTW: "meet me on the dark side of the moon." . . o U

Wait until I find my guitar.... Oups there it is. :@} moving towards the moon

NASA's JPL site no longer has the moon image on it. Fortunately, I snagged a copy of the 11meg tif. Here is a jpg rerduced to 64k. This already has a spherical projection so apply and map as a sphere to a brice sphere then shine positive lights at the face as needed. Haze will obscure the surface just like other distant objects in your render. You may have to bring it close to the camera in order to preserve details and still keep haze in your scene. The advantage to putting the moon on an object is you can use negative lights to make the moon look partially full. You can also have the moon and sun in the sky together. Thats not possible with the sky lab.

I downloaded the extremely hi res moon textures and had to reduce the resolution in photopaint becaused it crashed my Bryce 5 when I tried to apply it to my sphere.

Is that a coffee stain in the middle? ")

That's a big flat spot. Mare something or other. I can't remember my moon geography right now.

All this talk about moons made me remember this old pic I made a few years ago for one of my nieces. The cow jumped to the moon and didn't quite make it over. :^)

Attached Link: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/mare/mlm.html

The geology of the moon. :)

Yes TMG, I was up late last nite. I spilled some on the mouse. It must have drunk some and it worked its way into the CPU and my file;) Actually that's the parking lot for the new Lunar Disney World. I understand there going to bulldoze the sea of tranquility next until it meets with the others and looks like a set of ears.

Funny image tjohn. Thanks for the link Aldaron. Verry funny electroglyph, but I can almost see it happening.