I've got a lightning include file and I am working onadding
atmospheric lighting effects, but I've run into a few problems....  I
first tried rendering a light source at every bend of the lightning....
This resulted in approximately 250 light sources,  although rendering
slowly, the light sources stopped interacting with the atmosphere after
about 50-60 lights (I never calculated it exactly as I moved on to try
other things)....  Then I tried reducing the number of lights to every
3rd or 4th bend and only on the main branch which resulted in good
lighting effects in the atmosphere, but an odd "layered" look at
eye-level....  Then I tried the "looks_like" in the light definition and
tried to use the entire bolt as a a light and the atmospheric effects
turned off all together.....  Anyone have any idea how to bypass these
problems? (I'm using 3.04POVray for Windows95)
just me,
    jeff

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