Venus texture "To Darkmiss"

[danielj]

I was seeing your gallery and really like your Venus texture.How did you get the cool efect of seeing the surface beneath the transparent clouds?What files did you use and what is your ssc like?I wonder if you get this photo with the I key toggled off,so if you toggle the "I" key,your Venus show the upper layer of clouds.So you have 2 layers of clouds and the surface.Is it right?

[Darkmiss]

Hello Daniel
The Venus I am using has two layers the firey orange surface and a cloud layer

But the Venus clouds I am currently useing, I found a while back on Bruckners web site, (wich is no longer running)
And are more transparent than they should be (for effect)

I also have the more solid cloud layer as well, in my Lores folder
so i can switch between them.

here are my Venus settings

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"Venus" "Sol"
{
   Texture "venus.dds"
   Radius   6052
   HazeColor [ 0.5 0.35 0.2 ]
   HazeDensity 0.35

   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
      Lower [ 0.8 0.8 0.5 ]
      Upper [ 0.6 0.6 0.6 ]
      Sky   [ 0.8 0.8 0.5 ]
      CloudHeight 50
      CloudSpeed  90
      CloudMap "venus-clouds.dds"
   }

   CustomOrbit "vsop87-venus"
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period             0.6152
      SemiMajorAxis      0.7233
      Eccentricity       0.0068
      Inclination        3.3947
      AscendingNode     76.681
      LongOfPericenter 131.533
      MeanLongitude    181.979
   }

   RotationPeriod      5832.479839
   RotationOffset       137.45
   Obliquity            178.78
   EquatorAscendingNode 300.22
   Albedo                 0.77
}

If you want them, I could post them to you, as my home site has little room left for large files.

Have you got an e-mail account that would except abouy 6 meg ?