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  Re: Cumulus Cloud - Black Dot Problem  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 23 Feb 2007 22:18:59
aaglo wrote:
> "FlaPovFan" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> A fair weather cumulus cloud.  I couldn’t completely solve the “black dot”
>> problem, but the dots cover a very small area and the problem could be
>> resolved in an image-editing problem. That's not the Pov-Ray way, though.
>>
> 
> Hi,
> Did you try to increase the max_trace_level -value?

Please stop giving bad advice. max_trace_level is irrelevant for an
isosurface. Reading the manual would have revealed the problem quickly:

all_intersections
max_trace 300

The later setting overrides the former.

	Thorsten


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