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  Re: Which radiosity setting will best help fight spotty animation?  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 5 Apr 2004 22:14:20
Message: <4072127c@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> I guess it's well known that use of radiosity to light an animation can give
> a spotty and changing appearance to some of the shadows.
> 
> Is there a way to take a render-time hit on the chin and just crank up one
> of the settings to make this go away?  I'm currently experimenting with
> "count".

Increasing count will help; so, to a lesser extent, will increasing 
nearest_count. If you still can't get satisfactory results, increasing 
error_bound will reduce the appearance of artifacts, but at the cost of 
detail.

-Xplo


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