===== From spanky@wpi.edu: Lovely silouhette effect. You should make your halo container object bigger since you can tell where it's borders are. ===== From rotht@televar.com: Interesting use of halos... ===== From scooby@pld.com: Great fire effects (if scaled away from container edge). ===== From d97ta@efd.lth.se: this would do great in a '101 ways to use chris colefax' include files' competition... the surrounding sphere of the halo should be bigger, there is a visible border on the lower left where you can see the corona end abruptly. ===== From ewgr@abaddon.globalnet.co.uk: You can see the halo container top and bottom which detracts from an otherwise excellent solar flare. ===== From buck@cs.byu.edu: Nice! Excellent idea. However, the "flares" are too unrealistic, and they look too obviously as if they are enclosed in a sphere. Minus those and I would say it is a fantastic image! ===== From djconnel@flash.net: Again, I think the lens flare is out of place here. The halo is quite dramatic. However, the artificial spherical boundary is too evident. I would extend the boundary and have the halo naturally terminate. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: been there, done that. The solar flares seem a bit exagerated, still not bad. "The diamond ring" may have been a more interesting things to model, similar image but there is a thing rind around (or part way around) the moon. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Good colorful depiction of a solar eclipse. Quite realistic fire -- but flawed: the halo is cut off by the edges of its sphere. ===== From r@199.45.245.103: *spectacular* work with the halos. That is without a doubt the best fire effect I've ever seen anywhere. You do need to make the container object bigger- it gets cut off, which is a shame. The lens flare is a nice touch, but I would have used a different flare effect. The sky should also probably be blacker. Notable for composition, originality, textures