Of course, if I take a photo that has the real sun in it, I will get a lens flare...

But that is not even an option in Carrara. I have to put in a light overlapping the sun, and that will probably never give the right angling and intensity.
Think of Walt Disney's observations about animation - that you had to overdo it to an almost absurd degree or it would look stiff. There is something similar here. When we look at images we are used to looking at pictures taken with a lens and the flaws that entails. As a result, the lack of those flaws in a rendering engine results in an image that looks artificial. While it is nice to be able to get that artificial look, it is frustrating to not have the option to get a more realistic photo image.

There's also the issue of making the moon other than our moon, for a science fiction scene or something like that.

Message edited on: 01/27/2006 19:54

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