POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Media Help : Re: Media Help Server Time
30 Jul 2024 12:23:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media Help  
From: Buddy13
Date: 28 Mar 2004 18:40:43
Message: <4067627b@news.povray.org>
Hughes, B. wrote:

> "Buddy13" <bud### [at] themappersguildcom> wrote in message
> news:406750bc@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Nothing seems to make my lights visible -- although some things make the
>>whole scene too murky to even see.
> 
> 
> The 'spherical' pattern doesn't reach outside of a 1 unit radius, that will
> need to be scaled upward to fit the bounds of your scene. Other than that, I
> think you'll also need to raise the density values, so try ten times of what
> they are currently.
> 
> Also, you could leave out the intervals and other settings, since the
> defaults in version 3.5 usually do okay, at least until you get a look at
> the media.
> 
> P.S.
> Where I suggested to raise the densities: special attention for the
> spherical pattern since scaling it larger will also thicken the media,
> keeping in mind that media densities should be inverse to scaling. In this
> case, using the values already given for the spherical part and ten times
> for the bozo part should work good.
> 
Thanks, I'm trying it now.


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