POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparency bug : Re: Transparency bug Server Time
8 Aug 2024 04:03:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparency bug  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 16 Mar 2001 14:09:54
Message: <3AB26501.C5AF88F0@gmx.de>
Bryan Spitz wrote:
> 
> I think I've discovered a bug in POV-Ray 3.1g. When the camera looks through
> three or more "panes" of transparent material, the panes farthest away will
> be coloured in completely black. It's hard to describe, so here is a simple
> scene that causes the problem. In case it's relevant, my processor is an AMD
> 900 and I am running Windows 98.
> 
> [...]

No bug, it's a well known and quite reasonable behaviour.  Use
max_trace_level in global_settings to influence this.

Christoph

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