...because now I'm repeating myself.

John Mellerick wrote:
> 
> However, I think they way that Povray goes about creating soft-edged shadows
> is *all wrong*.

Yes, those bastards! They added a feature to the software to create 
soft-edged shadows without the massive overhead of massive point light 
arrays! How dare they?

</sarcasm>

No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use area lights. 
If you dislike them that much, don't use them. You have a perfectly 
servicible light array generator.

> Have a look at my reply to Jaime Vives Piqueres above - I describe (in too
> much detail to repost here) a very intensive test scene I did with my point
> light array macro, with fairly high radiosity settings, very high quality
> antialiasing...

Your test scenes were LAUGHABLY SIMPLE.. sufficient to demonstrate a 
technique, but not a good demonstration of the effects of light arrays 
on rendering time for realistically complex scenes. The fact that you 
seem to think otherwise shows your inexperience and ignorance.

-Xplo

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