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  Re: The new max trace level behavior in pov3.7 beta 22  
From: Rune
Date: 3 Sep 2007 18:49:08
Message: <46dc8f64$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>  In the new beta the behavior of the maximum trace level has been
> changed a bit. Now the trace level is *not* incremented for objects
> which do not have reflection nor ior (but which may be transparent or
> semi-transparent).

Will there be a new keyword for specifying the max desired number of 
transparent surfaces passed through (default=infinite)? If not, how can it 
be avoided that scenes that rendered fast before (with acceptable artifacts) 
will render extremely slow with the new behavior?

Rune
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