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i actually like the lighting on the clouds. doesnt seem to suddenly change or anything like u say

actually, its the sky behind the clouds that changes too fast. when about 1/3 of the sun has set.

VERY smart *votes 5* its' a big file though.

wwwowoow! this is kool! i liky! rates 5*

yes, it's really big. i wish i could do it on flash...maybe i can if i read the help for my freeware flash program.

I don't know why but the large ball of light reminds me of Reboot Daemon Rising?? heh, I watch too much CGI!

i like this. I wonder if you can set a "moving background" for a computer. If you could, this would be mine (mine's a sunset anyway, but this is much better AND moving.) keep it up!

not bad. I like it .Great job TOOT

OMFG ik that is the best ideai cant believe i havent tried that. OMFG it works! u could use this as a bg! holy t3h shi7s >.< takes forever to load tho.

i may eventually make a bigger one, but that would mean rendering the landscape 41 times ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!! and that wouldn't be fun. but hey, it's summer, i've got nothing else to do. any suggestions for the land? i didn't know what to do. and I still have that annoying white flash...

maybe (this would take forever) if you rendered the sun going down and then the moon coming up and down and then the sun up and down in a cycle like that, that would be cool. But like i said that would take about 5X longer than this one and the filesize would follow suit.

I love it!!! i can tell u got a lot of time on your hands good job

well DOR the problem with that either is that the sun and moon would rise and set in the same place, or the camera would have to move. I guess i could move the camera....that would be hard. well, boring actually. and, i think i said this on the other picture, the moon is actually the sun. but that's not a big problem.

Yeah DOR makes a good point. Having Day and Night would be great. maybe you might try a storm.

i was thinking about doing a storm. it would work after the green one of before the storm. i don't know if i would animate it though, that would be hard, because you can't just move the clouds. but i do have a plugin that generates raindrop ripples on water...that would help... oh, and i just noticed, depending on what i open this with the speed may be really slow. i kept trying to slow it down, but it didn't work, and i gave up, but by that time it was like a few frames per second or something...really jerky.

you could potentially render the landscape in bits, just a few times. there'd be a slight loss of realism, but i think you could handle it. Explaination: render the landscape against a clear sky, sun straight up. render a nice sky against a plain landscape. finally, render your sun. GIF all three images (for transparancy) then splice them together in flash, using alpha and tint tweening to achieve the darkening and reddening effect.

hmm. well, i don't have flash, but i'm considering getting it. i do have eclipse, a freeware flash program, but i haven't gotten around to doing it yet. do you know if it's any good?

PerfectIdea came to me . Maybe a solar eclipse could be in Twilight Princess. Why don't you animate the sun slowly being covered by the moon.

i think i've said this before, there is no moon in terragen, only a sun that can look like a moon if messed with sufficiently. but, if/when i get flash/figure out eclipse (the program), i could do what KR suggested to make an eclipse (solar)....

i've used eclipse, so i couldn't tell you. i don't it's up to the MX standard, but then again few things are. sorry.

typing fast? how do you do a simple gif-like thing in MX? what tool or whatever? i'm hoping i can figure out how to do that, because the only animations i'm doing currently are gifs.

actually one thing that the computer failed on... it goes completely dark before the sun is completely gone... like instantly... it still looks amazing!!! but there is that one little problem... very hard 2 notice tho..

really? hard to notice? that's actually what i was talking about with the lighting of the clouds in the description

I like when the day finish, and the sun go out. I like very much your animation....It's very very beautiful

captivating

cool, maybe a bit to high contrast , but anyway good work