thanks peggy for your reply.

i understand the part about making a sphere and squishing it but how are you appling the fog effect to the sphere...i am under the impression that the only way to create the fog is through the atmosphere editor and having the sun play a role. ie; you can have a sun with no fog but you can't have fog without a sun (???).

could you please explain a bit more for me?

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