>>
>> But materials can't be targets, only objects can.  The only way you 
>> can implement this is to make every object somehow 'inherit' the 
>> photon settings of its material.  But this would not be obvious to the 
>> user so it will just cause confusion in most cases.
> 
> 
> Materials can't be targets, true, but materials are allways assigned to 
> certain objects, so yes, objects should inherit the photon settings. I 
> thought this is obvious as there simply can't be an occurence of 
> material without an object it is assigned to. And the whole point was to 
> let material specify if an object needs photons. That is logical - same 
> way as you might assign CAUSTICS keyword to certain material.
> 
Just my thoughts on this. I think inheritance in this case is
a bad idea, especially if you combine it with 'target off'.
The properties of an object can then change with
the order in which the parts are added together.
Photons as a material property makes sense, but that would
probably mean a large rewrite of the code (if even possible).
Also it may break existing code.

    Andrel

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