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[Kadri]

Thanks

I wanted just to tried another thing.
I was curious how it might look if i have used a little more real scale numbers for the planets and the distance.
But it got a little funky when i tried that. So i am not sure how it would look when there are real scales in the play.

[choronr]

A striking image here that first one Kadri; and, as it could actually be somewhere in the vast Universe.

[Kadri]

Thank you.

[Hannes]

Yes, I guess it's a real scale issue. I'm just thinking loud now, but if the sun would have the exact same distance to the earth like in real life, would the shadows look as expected?

[Kadri]

Yes, I guess it's a real scale issue. I'm just thinking loud now, but if the sun would have the exact same distance to the earth like in real life, would the shadows look as expected?

Curious too.

[Mahnmut]

to emphasize it again, these are great images,
I like them very much!
I just wondered about the phases because I have had the same effect in some of my images, and I think it should only occur when your sun is really close in relation to the distance between two planets or moons.
So, does the TG-Sun have a real location, or is it a source of parallel light? or what else?
My best Regards,
J

[Matt]

This would be easy to test by putting two spheres very close to the camera and with approximately the same composition in the picture.

Matt

[Matt]

So, does the TG-Sun have a real location, or is it a source of parallel light? or what else?

Sunlights in Terragen have parallel light which simulates the sun being infinitely far away.

Matt

[Kadri]

to emphasize it again, these are great images,
I like them very much!
...

No worry

I made these tests you can see below.

I think the sun in Terragen is more like a parallel lightsource (i looked at the wiki but could not find the answer there).
Especially if you look at the last crop (same scene as the last rendered image with all from above) directly from Terragen where the sun position is.
Edit:Matt gave the answer already as i wrote this

There is some difference but that looks still from the relative angle to the camera to me.
Not sure of course.

The moon and planets are unrealistically close as you can see from the last rendered image.
So i am still not sure what the right answer is(regarding real world scales).

[Kadri]

Just for fun.

[Dune]

Nice.

[Kadri]

Thanks.

[TheBadger]

 

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