Planet glow??

[salmonmoose]

The glow is most likely done as a post effect -

You could do it with a plane that always faces the camera, although it's a rather nasty hack.

In Max you would use a volume light atmosphere effect - other packages, I'm not so sure;

[aussie3d]

G'Day, found a photoshop / post tutorial that might help get you the results you were looking for.
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_planet.html
and another at
http://www.windfalldesigns.co.uk/forum/ipb/index.php?showtopic=167&pid=1177&st=0&#entry1177
Best regards...

[speter79]

thanks a lot. I will get to work on it right away.

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