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10 Aug 2024 23:22:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: No pointlight atmospheric media interaction?  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 7 Oct 1999 06:42:55
Message: <37FC7899.AB1E477@my-dejanews.com>
Okay, thanks for the suggestion.  However, I already tried the "container media"
and the effect was not nearly as cool as that for the spotlight and atmospheric
media.


Jerome M. BERGER wrote:

>         Is there anything else in the scene besides the media and the light? If
> not, that's because when you use a spotlight, the samples get
> concentrated in the lighted cone so the effect is visible, whereas for a
> pointlight they are distributed along the whole ray and if there's
> nothing to stop it, the ray goes to infinity... (in fact that's why
> rather than using atmospheric media, I usually use object media in a
> very large container: it's easier to tune)
>
>                 Jerome
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