POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Atmospheric Media : Re: Atmospheric Media Server Time
12 Aug 2024 21:18:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Atmospheric Media  
From: Ken
Date: 3 Jan 1999 14:28:28
Message: <368FC46C.C4372D79@pacbell.net>
Darcy Johnston wrote:

> Can anyone possibly offer any help here? I've been trying to setup some
> atmosphere using media, hoping to have spotlighs running through it. I've
> followed the examples files that came with the distribution, but I can't get
> my light beams to show up in the media?
>
> My media statement is:
> media {
>   intervals 40
>   scattering { 1, rgb 0.02}
>   samples 1, 10
>   confidence 0.9999
>   variance 1/1000
>   ratio 0.9
> }
>
> And my lights are just spotlights with media_attenuation on. I've placed
> regular cones to verify that the beams should be within my field of view,
> but even though the cones show up, the beams never do (and yes, I have
> removed the cones <g>).
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Darcy
> djo### [at] inamecomNOSPAM
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/4317

Are you using high intensity spot lights ? I noticed in the example
scenes they have the color values pumped up to a fairly high level.

Try something like color rgb<3,3,3> and see what happens.

--
Ken Tyler

tyl### [at] pacbellnet


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