how to achieve edge glow on earth

[Dave3D]

Simple way would be add a glow from under the special effects tab in your earth shader.

or add a sphere with volume shader for the Ozone layer, and add a glow to this 2.

Dave

[FiendishVegan]

create a sampler-info node and input its facing ratio attribute into the v-cord of a ramp texture. Then use the ramp texture to make the atmospheric glow more apparent on the edges. Here is a tutorial on how to make a ghost shader that explains this setup:

http://www.alias.com/eng/community/tutorials/index.jhtml#

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