Cubemaps/Skyboxes

[Phoroneus]

Thank you for doing the sunset for me Phoroneus, I have only one problem with it. It way too overexposed near the sun. I wouldn't mind if it was only a small area, but it's half of the skybox!

I've tried opening it with Gimp and changing some of the saturation and hue values, but to no Avail...

Is this some kind of feature built into HPL? I was expecting to 'make' the sun with billboards, but it seems to create the glare effect automatically, which is annoying in my case, because of the size of the sun. I'll post a couple of pics to show you what I mean, can anyone help?

How it should look:

Spoiler below!

How it actually looks

Spoiler below!

I'm not sure why that is. Sorry I've been so long in replying, I was right in the path of Irene and haven't had power since Saturday (no major damage otherwise). I'm on a university terminal right now, so can't work on the skybox just yet. I'm also moving about 100 miles so my computer is packed up, it should be functional by Friday and I'll look into dimming down the sun for you. It'll take more than some brightness settings to get it to look normal, I expect.

With luck, I should have it fixed up by Saturday morning (assuming no problems with the move).