that’s my overcasted world, rendered with the internal renderer.
click image for full size: 1600x960
the volume cloud renderlayer took about 172 hours (~7 days) to render on an athlon xp 2100+. i never rendered a single image that long before. 
i hope you like it. 
Holy crap. How’d you accomplish those clouds? Very nicely done image, by the way. Practically nothing I can see wrong with it.
7 DAYS?!?!?!?!?!
Patients is a virtue I guess…
I guess that is a good reason for voxels…
thank you.
about the clouds…
750 z-transparent and textured planes are simulating the volume. since mist isn’t working well with this method, i had to use also an array of planes with a minimal alpha in camera direction to simulate mist more realistic.
the long rendertime comes from the high resolution of the image, because i had to increase the plane count which causes the rendertime growing exponentially.
Clouds are incredible. Now if that sky generator for the summer of code ever got done somehow.
Wow. Holy crap. XD Nothing says ‘mind-boggling pain’ like doing things manually. I congratulate you on what you did.
Really nice image. The clouds look great! I love your avatar by the way.
Wow! Nice, that 7 days sure payed off!
Cuby
Looks very cool. My comp drags its feet on simple renders.
7 Days to render the earth huh? Very biblical
I don’t think I could live without my computer for 7 whole days, lol. Looks nice, but I think you could have photoshopped something much easier.
of course, i could have done it completely without a computer too, just with paint and paper. besides that, i can dive the camera through my clouds, try this with painted ones! since i use blender mainly for animations and less for stills, i prefer 3d clouds.
… and maybe i should mention, that i have more than one computer. 
Wow! those clouds are awsome! If only you had of worked abit more on making the planet abit more realistic. Great job just the same - the clouds are the best I’ve seen.
wow! that is awesome!
I melt of jealousy…
thank you all again.
i think that the style of earth fits nicely into the fantasy-like look of the image, since it’s not very realistic at all.
So this is the render that spawned your avatar “Time: 172:35:43.7”, huh?
Awesome! Beautiful concept, beautiful render!
YellowLambo, a four-year bump is not ethical.
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