Someone brought up a good question on how to make the clouds occlude the sun. So I decided to give it a shot and obtained these results: I made a mask in Photoshop that indicates where the sun will be occluded. In the mask, the thick clouds are black and thinner clouds are a shade of gray. The red rectangle on the upper…
On the creation of a second disk for planets or second/third suns. I found a way to duplicate and offset the vector of the light and camera vectors. Instead of tuning a non relative vector you can simply do this: Create a 3Vector Pram (*make it low, like 0.1,0.1,0.1) -> add it to the light vector -> then (THIS IS THE…
I updated the tutorial to introduce the use of custom brushes to make a better cloud mask, which is the one used for the panning clouds effect. I decided to add that to the tutorial because I feel it gives the setup more realism, and its a very simple addition. One page was added to the tutorial: I decided to put it here…