bancquart.sebastien wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm rather new to POV (about 1 month) and I am trying to do soft shadows.
> For that, I used the area_light option. This softens the shadows, increases 
> the computation time, but generates a very "grainy" shadow.
> 
> Is there a trick to avoid it ?
> 
> To see the result of my first tries, look at :
> http://croquis.over-blog.com/article-171375-6.html

I'm not noticing the 'grainy' look there ... but I know the look you 
mean. I found that increasing the number of lights in the area light 
will give a much less grainy shadow but doesn't increase the render time 
considerably.

Cheers!
Rick

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