ElChristou wrote:Those methane blocks of ice are a preliminary test?
The small ones were not textured yet when i took the screenshot, yes.
t00fri wrote:it seems people have
switched on the lights in their houses
visible in some distance. No wonder, it's pretty dark outside

Yes, the dark "atmosphere" is exactly what i am after here. I am still
thinking hard, wondering if there??s a way to simulate rain...
As for the lights, they come from a problem with the normals on some
hard edges/creases in the rocks. It gets reflected wrong from some
angles - i am working on it.
Evil Dr Ganymede wrote:So, are you going to try to match up the rocks in the lander's surface image to the terrain model in your first picture here?

Actually, that was the very first thing i did, but it haven??t made it into the
scene above, at least not yet. I wanted to make a micro-scene in the
larger landscape where one could set the camera exactly where the photo
was taken... But stopped this work halfway, when the amount of detail i
wanted grew to about 100 mb in my work file for the rocks alone (that
would be something like 10-12 MB extra for the 3ds scenery, actually
doubling the weight of this particular model). I am still undecided.
Here??s a screen of where i left off:
-rthorvald