Hello everyone!

 So I have been trying to render a star in Maya. The proper means by which I can achieve this from what I have been able to figure out is using the light glow and sun flare settings in the attribute editor.

I have two main problems which are preventing me from rendering a distant sun coming from from the horizon of a planet.

One: The light glow will not render in Mental Ray. Is there a way to bypass this? If so what else can I use to create a sun flare in Maya?

Two: When rendering in Maya Software the light glow will show (with the sun flare) but it goes through the planet.

No matter where I position it whether it is behind one object or behind 5 it will still show through all of these objects. How can I prevent this light glow from showing through objects in Maya?

 I do not want to use any video editing software unless I absolutely have to. I use Vegas to edit all my video data and Vegas has a sun flare effect but it is unrealistic, and I can't control it entirely which makes it difficult to get a desired outcome.

Anyways that's my current problem. I hope someone can help. I really don't want to use Maya Software to render anything, and as I have stated before I really only have Maya as an option to work in.

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