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heyas; i got this idea from a picture at astronomy picture of the day, of a time-lapse exposure of an eclipse. so i thought i'd mess with vue 4's planets. i was thinking of making this for the vue contest, but... it's kinda boring. all the snow was REAL dull, but then i stuck a gel on the sun (moon) light. i think one of those little diamond ones, but i put a rainbow colour map on it, and tweaked the colours. you cant really tell too much after i shrank the pic down to this size. but it did look a little better than flat white snow. it also made some dotty pattern on the clouds, which are on a plane (not in the sky), so it got the gel on them. that wasn't too problematic, though.

Boy, I think you did a fantastic job, it certainly isn't dull to me. I like how you did the perspective. I also know what I am up against in this contest. Going to be tough...although I do like looking at what others can do.. Sharen:)

Bloodsong, Man we must be on the same wavelength or something! I have an image very similar that is rendering as we speak -- it's a daytime pict but the mood is close. I'll post it probably tomorrow -- it's my first Vue pict, so at this point I'm just glad to be done with it! But I named my online gallery after a wolf -- I love wolves! Very cool image -- thanks for sharing! -Brian http://lonewolf.tierranet.com

Nice work, Bloodsong!

Hey, that's definitely a nice pic, love the snow and the aurora borelis effect... That planet theme must be real popular.. Check this out.. :)

Very nice bloodsong. I only expected the eagle on the roc :-) Guitta

Blah? Why "blah"? I think it looks pretty good, and it looks as though you caught the varying angles of sunlight on the planets pretty well, since it's supposed to be a time lapse. :)

because, it is blah. look at the dumb trees in the background stupid cone trees. and snow snow snow on everything everywhere and not even sparkly. and that boring wolf with no detailed texture. snore. and the planets are just.... there. not very exciting. in other news, i made REAL sparkly snow; the problem is, i can make sparkly snow for dark scenes or sparkly snow for light scenes, but not snow that is properly sparkly in any/all scenes. still working.

Please keep us posted. And remember, Vue does not force anyone into rendering blah. ;)

I really like it. Bloodsong, is there a better quality version anywhere? I'd like to use this as windows wallpaper but it's a bit too jpeg'd Gail