eonite opened this issue on Apr 18, 2009 · 89 posts
eonite posted Mon, 27 April 2009 at 3:26 PM
Thanks Mazak, Richard and Timspfd for the warm welcome and nice feedback on the cirrus clouds. You`re welcome.
I`m confident that this kind of cirrus layers will make a nice contrast to the amazing Vue cumulus layers.
Mazak, thanks for putting up the link :-)
Richard, thanks for the hint on attaching files. The next file (in a couple of days) I will be way too big, so I better provide a link...
Timspfd, I really hope that the SciFi sky pack will provide more depth.
Currently I`m figuring out the best way to get the scifi/alien sky collection into Vue.
Did tons of tests.
When things have progressed a bit further I will post a link to an example Vue scene.
Things seem to work really fine with with environment mapping. They need to be huge (8000x4000) so the sky is crisp without the need to zoom out.
Currently I think that in order to get the best results and to be flexible it`s good when the environments maps provide the overall star scape with for example one mean nebula.
All the other elements, like moons, planets, clusters and additional nebulae, are separate renders that can be put onto alpha planes.
What`s really cool is that if you delete the ground plane you have a space environment all around.
Quite impressive.
Below is one of the test renders with an enviroment map (2048x1024) and some additional elements that were put onto alpha planes (the moon uses an alpha mask, the other elements I turned additive.)
There were point lights added.
Rendertime 10 seconds :-)