Dark Sun - Oasis

DARK SUN - OASIS
The world of Athas maybe dying...but some still fight against the end of life, refusing to let the waters of life be burned off by a sun gone mad!
A thri-kreen druid performs a ritual that summons water back to the old oasis, as the larger moon and the sun hit a specific alignment...as he and his forebears have done for untold years


Based on the world of "Dark Sun", a fantasy setting for Dungeons & Dragons that I love

Rendered in Vue7 Infinite, postwork in PhotoshopCS4

figured out how to get a proper 3D sun object to use as the Sun in Vue, sounds simple, but it ain't, as Vue uses "spectral" atmospheres, which are mimic real life atmospherics and the Sun very realistically, but you cannot chnage the surface texture of the SUn
so put a 3D sphere in front of the Sun, and all you do is block out the sunlight! but little jiggery pokery and I did it

before I had to simulate the peculiar looks of the Dark Sun in postwork, or render it in Mojoworld.
It's a red giant sun, but fractured and dark surfaced with lighter "veins"