POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Object Shadows : Re: Object Shadows Server Time
2 Aug 2024 16:26:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Object Shadows  
From: Slime
Date: 1 Sep 2004 11:32:51
Message: <4135eba3$1@news.povray.org>
> I think you need light_groups for this, but I have no experience with
them.


Unfortunately, regardless of what light_group a light is in, all objects
will block that light (even if the light doesn't light up the object). So
light_groups won't solve this problem.

I'm not sure POV-Ray has a way to prevent an object from blocking only a
single light source.

Some sort of no_external_shadows keyword for light_groups would be pretty
handy; this is a question that comes up a lot.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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