I tend to use haze solely to fake the effect of distance - i.e. as I sit here looking out my window, I see no haze effects on anything within a couple of hundred meters, but the hills a few kilometers away definitely show that haze effect. So for that image you've got above where everything is pretty close to the camera, I'd probably skip the haze entirely or have it at the smallest setting.

I've seen haze used to good effect to help generate a the reduced visibility in rainy scenes and in underwater images.

For fog or ground fog I tend to use the method that elminster_ZK mentions using volumetric mats - makes it look a little more patchy and less homogenous and more interesting (in my opinion).

The haze only on distant objects you mention - I've done that in bryce using two renders - one with haze, one without, then using an object mask to help me cut/paste the un-hazed foreground onto the hazed background in post.

You could probably do it this same way in Vue (I haven't got that far yet in my Vue learning curve), or there may be other ways.

Message edited on: 02/08/2006 22:49

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