So, that's wonderful, I've got my light and camera set up, the camera can glide along the vector to the object center for cropping even, but what is the focal length supposed to be. 50mm seems to work OK, but I haven't been able to figure out if it's 'on' yet. Or is it an orthographic camera?To position the camera and the lights, imagine that the object is at the origin: The camera is 6 units away and 12 units above the object. The light source is 3 units to the left (as seen from the camera), 5 units behind [Note: THE LIGHT COMES FROM THE TOP LEFT OF THE IMAGE, “BEHIND” translates to “behind the ship from the camera's perspective” NOT “behind the ship from the ship's perspective”] and 5 units above the object (Note: treat the light source as being at infinity).
Also, a couple of questions on scale. First, the chart on that page, which is marked as a logarithmic scale for stars and planets, tops out at 512 pixels for a ringed planet; this is the size used for Star1.jpg. The actual ringed planet appears to be about 256x256 with a ringed extending to almost 512, which would make it smaller than Neptune on that chart?
And, do you have a similar size chart for stations and ships? Is it also logarithmic? Are stations and ships on the same scale?
Thanks!
