Roy Schulz <roy### [at] gmxde> wrote:
: Like "shadowless" lights it would be nice to have "specularless" lights for
: use as fill lights.

  As I said in p.b-t, it should be "specular on/off".

  You say that it should be "specularless" for consistency with "shadowless".
I disagree. The "shadowless" keyword syntax is a relic, and not very good.
(Why there has to be a different keyword for light sources and for objects?)

  So the problem is not with "specular on/off". The problem is really with
"shadowless", which should better be "shadows on/off" for both light sources
and objects (and "shadowless" and "no_shadow" should be removed or at least
deprecated).

  There's also another advantage of using "specular on/off": It contaminates
less the already bloated namespace of the POV-Ray syntax. (And substituting
"shadowless/no_shadow" with "shadows on/off" also reduces the number of
reserved keywords by one.)

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