Hi! I’m an intermediate Blender user and would like to recreate this image from ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli. I would use the PSA Addon I already purchased. If I move the ground plane really high up (50000m) the atmosphere already looks right. So far so good. But how would I set up the Earth itsel…

Scenes with astronomical size have minimal parallax and can be faked in the compositing stage. Usually it’s matte paint or a simple image. There are few cases that actually have a big sphere but it’s not physically accurate.

You might want to ask in this thread because users using this and the authors might have a look ? [image] Physical Starlight and Atmosphere Addon for 2.9 (v1.4) - now with Clouds! Released Scripts and Themes Knowing how essential outdoor lighting is and the fa…

Thanks for the tip! But it looks like the thread and actually the whole addon was abandoned a while ago. One of the last questions from 2023 was practically the same question and nobody answered yet…

Ups… sorry i wasn’t aware of that… ( there was some “heated” discusion about the “usefullness” of that addon and the devs said somthing about very accurate and needed… well… or i’m mixing this up i didn’t followed this too much but remembered that there was this thread :sweat_smile: ) But neverthe…

How to recreate a photo of planet earth using the Physical Starlight and Atmosphere Addon

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Okidoki (Okidoki) January 3, 2025, 9:47am 3

You might want to ask in this thread because users using this and the authors might have a look ?