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2 Aug 2024 22:15:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fog and media (once again...)  
From: gonzo
Date: 19 Jul 2004 23:27:00
Message: <40fc9104$1@news.povray.org>
arbitrary77 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found some older posts about this problem, but no solution so far, and
> it's really starting to annoy me. 
<snip>
> I have a scene with fog, and a hollow transparent container object
> containing a media. But strangely enough, the otherwise completely
> invisible container object is still casting a shadow, and it only happens
> when there is fog. I added a small test scene which shows the problem.

> Any explanations or ideas?
<snip>
> fog { distance 20 color rgbf<0.7,0.7,0.7,0> }

Try just
fog { distance 20 color rgb<0.7,0.7,0.7> }

It would probably be helpful to note in the docs somewhere that filter 
with fog shouldn't be used with media.

RG


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