Hiya,
I've been working on a planet for my renders, and thought I'd take a high-level shot to find interesting land forms. Some really strange "spot light" effects showed themselves in the atmosphere. The atmosphere only has some hgh-level clouds, haze turned way down, color tweaked a bit.
white spot:
http://www.ricosweb.net/images/SunBeam.jpg
pulling out further, red spots show up too:
http://www.ricosweb.net/images/SunBeam2b.jpg (the original 1920x1200 render is available if necessary)
the scene:
http://www.ricosweb.net/images/LowOrbit.tgd
Rich Allen
Interesting results, rather more extreme than I've seen previously. This are quite possibly GI bugs. Try turning off global illumination and re-rendering. In general GI doesn't seem to have a positive effect on orbital renders anyway and probably just slows things down. Do let us know if that fixes it.
- Oshyan
Yup. I disabled "Enviro Light" in my scene and the spotlights went away.