Kari Kivisalo wrote:
> 
> John Bradshaw wrote:
> >
> > For an approximation of the lighting from an HDR lightprobe image, you can
> > use a plugin for HDR shop which will dump out coordinates for lights
> 
> This will probably produce smoother results when there are several
> small sources in the lightprobe. Radiosity sampling will miss most
> of them and the rest will produce just artefacts. Shadows may be
> problematic but as this lighting is used only on objects and not on
> whole scenes it't not that important.

It might be useful to get halfway realistic lighting but don't want to use
radiosity.  I suppose the original purpose of such a feature is to use it
in scanline renderers without shadows.

Christoph

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