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Howdy all! I know you already have a monthly challenge going, so think of this as a mini challenge. What I'm looking for are "smog induced" sunsets. You can read more at: http://forums.big-i.com/htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID23/50.html# I figure not too many of us are familiar with So. California's smog induced sunsets, so I'm hoping Vue forums everwhere can have ther own "smoggy sunset" challenges. I can set up the land, veggies, ocean part of it, but I'm lost when it comes to the depth and color gradations of the sky. Thanks for your attention. I now return you to your regularly scheduled challenge.

Dig, I can't recall for sure offhand now, but you've just gotten Vue 4 as I remember. Try loading any regular atmosphere (preferably one with a blue daytime sky), then set it to be volumetric. You might just find "instant" smog. :)

Oh yeah, if there's one thing those volumetric atmospheres are good at, it's fog and smog!

This is gonna sound strange, but I haven't even tried the volumetric stuff, yet. Just been playing with clouds and color. With the kind of sunset I'm thinking of, the smog itself isn't all that noticeable. You get a colorful haze, but it's the effect of the polutants and light on the clouds that's really awesome.

The volumetric atmospheres are really annoying at first, but pretty easy to get a grasp on once you start playing around with them. But you definitely have to start either in volumetric mode or regular, because it's not like one is a substitute for another, to say the least; they're completely different in how to approach them. In volumetric mode, the fog and the haze settings seem to be IT as far as appearance goes, but the light has a great deal to do with it too, as they work together, as opposed to the way you can have far more varied settings with a "normal" atmosphere.

Try it, you'll see it. :)