How to render very small and very large objects together?

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I’m trying to do a simulation with Parker Solar Probe looking at the sun with a perspective view.

The problem is the sun is about 463,800,000x larger than Parker, and since there’s such a drastic difference in scale I’m having issues with the near/far plane and sizing of my models.

Can you give some suggestions on how I can handle this or fake it?

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The magic concept is a logarithmic depth buffer:

See this: three.js docs

Example: three.js examples

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Thank you! I think that’ll do it. Clearly I’m new to these concepts :slightly_smiling_face: