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7 Aug 2024 09:23:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: High ambient values  
From: Kari Kivisalo
Date: 17 Oct 2001 09:01:21
Message: <3BCD8123.471F482B@engineer.com>
Thomas wrote:
> 
> Why is it when I make the ambient higher then 1 of an object to starts
> to loose it's color i.e. it gets white.

All the components must be in range 0-1 for display. If one of the
components is already 1 and the ambient gain higher than 1 it gets
clipped for display and this changes the color towards white.
Internally the colors are floats so the color of the emitted light
is still correct.


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Kari Kivisalo


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