Hi vue-ers,

I want to make a vue planet for a scene and i have made a few planets etc, but what i cant seem to nail is getting depth to the clouds when looking to the edge of the planet.what i also want to see is the shadow cast onto the land/sea by the clouds too any one got any pointers?

Increase the "height" of the cloud layer.  For better defined shadows cast by the clouds, make sure your Sun light is using a softness of 0.0.  Then slide your environment lighting closer to Sun light rather than ambient light.

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Perilous,
hey is that Dan Dare you have for your icon? :)

It was mainly the shadow density setting that delivered the results, i was using the vue earth scene from the extras disk and it was set fairly low, also i enhance the detail by going into sky fog and haze tab and undr global settings selected volumetric sunlight so now i have my basis to form a decent planet how i like it.

just to add, the pic is just to demonstrate that i got it working lol i hope the finished work will be an order of magnitude better

Ah, thought so ;)
Loved the Dan Dare stories in the 2000AD era!

and wlel done on getting it right! :)

Quote - just to add, the pic is just to demonstrate that i got it working lol i hope the finished work will be an order of magnitude better

I like the clouds popping up in the distance.