Lightwave Planet Atmospheric Scattering and Hangar Bay Test

700 views · Published 13 November 2008 · 0:25 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Into The Black · 2008 · Film & Animation

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While obsessing through a simple test scene of a sporty little space ship, I ended up with a couple of personal breakthroughs:

1.  Atmospheric 'Scattering' effect on the Planet.  It is not actually Rayleigh/Mie scattering, but I doubt most viewers can tell the difference, and it renders very fast.  This is accomplished with some cylinder mapped gradients for color, transparency and luminosity.

2.  Interior hangar bays have a cylinder mapped panoramic image on the walls.  The geometry is crude, since they were added as an afterthought, but as a proof-of-concept, it works.

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