Warp wrote:
> Ben Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> However, no matter how high your settings are, an ambient object which 
>> is completely off screen will never light the scene, no matter its size 
>> or brightness.
> 
>   Care to explain why? I can't think of any reason why being on-screen
> would have anything at all to do with that. Radiosity samples don't care
> where the camera is looking at. It shoots rays to all directions.
> 

It appears I've been proven wrong once again, and here's where I got 
confused.

I was under the impression that the Radiosity pretrace only created 
samples from objects that were on-screen.  Since ideally the pretrace 
will create all necessary samples and further sampling would be 
unnecessary, this would result in only having samples for onscreen objects.

Second, I never thought to bump up the count setting to 1600, as Gilles 
suggested.  I always assumed that 100-150 was enough, as further detail 
isn't noticable in many scenes.

Some quick tests I just did show that simply going with much higher 
settings than I had (in fact, before I would have called them insane :) 
) was sufficient.

I stand corrected ;)

...Chambers

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