Hello John!

2012/3/29 John Gamboa <[email protected]>:
> 1 - When you say "satellites and rings", you are talking only about
> the planets from the Solar system, right?

Yes

> 2 - should I take into account only the light coming from the sun,
> when generating a shadow for a planet? (should I suppose that the
> light coming from the other starts is "meaningless"?)

Yes

> 3 - You expect me to choose/develop a proper algorithm to make the
> satellites and rings cast the proper shadow, right? (or is there
> already a well-known algorithm that is really good for that?)

I think soft and hard shadows, but maybe you can proposed better algorithm

> 4 - I couldn't find yet in the code, but I think the answer must be
> easy enough: Can I suppose that the planets are spheroids? (I believe
> that the answer is "yes", because of the other referred idea)

Yes, all our solar system bodies now spheroids

-- 
With best regards, Alexander

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