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From: Anthony D  Baye
Date: 18 Feb 2003 23:17:37
Message: <3E530623.5C4A6A4C@Rapidnet.com>
Try making the hotspot of your spotlights smaller.  (tightness > 50, falloff
36...)?

That's just off the top of my head, I'll have to try a simple scene myself to
test it.


A.D.B.

"Ian J. Burgmyer" wrote:

> Heh, it's been a while since I've done much of anything in POV...oh well,
> here's something new for 2003.
>
> This is the first actual *scene* I ever did in POV SDL and I found that it
> took me less time to construct it in SDL than many of my Moray scenes do.
>
> I have to admit, I did cheat a little -- I softened the shadows up a bit
> with PSP5.  I worked with it for a while last night but couldn't really come
> up with any workable results in SDL.  Finally, I just got tired of it,
> cranked the media settings, and went to bed. ;)  Any tips on the deadly art
> of shadow softening (without using area lights) would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Please tell me what you think. :)
>
> -Ian
>
>  [Image]


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