POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Atmospheric Media : Re: Atmospheric Media Server Time
12 Aug 2024 21:20:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Atmospheric Media  
From: Darcy Johnston
Date: 3 Jan 1999 17:38:48
Message: <368ff178.0@news.povray.org>
Ken wrote in 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?
[...]
>> 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>).


>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.


Thanks, I tried intensifying my lights and that seems to have done the
trick.
Although in my case I decided to crank it all the way to 15 or so. :)

Thanks again,
Darcy
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