CompuServe Messages

<<1. I cannot seem to be able to create a light source that affects the ENTIRE scene within 3d Studio in the same way, with a soft falloff on the planet and other objects within the scene.>> Move the spotlight a LONG way from the planet. The further you move the spotlight the more parallel the light beams will be and therefore more like those of the sun. <<I cannot in any EFFICENT way create an undistorted scrolling backround of a gasous nebula without projecting it onto a hemisphere, which heavily distorts the image takes away from the scene.>> Map the gaseous nebula instead onto a flat plane and use Alpha or a mask to make the areas around the nebulus in the bitmap transparent. DaviD "Mapping monoliths" GouID