POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Area Lights? For Real! : Re: Area Lights? For Real! Server Time
5 Jul 2024 14:02:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Area Lights? For Real!  
From: Warp
Date: 4 May 2008 11:56:33
Message: <481ddcb1@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> You can use an array of, say 2 by 2 or 3 by 3, area_lights. Use adaptive 0 
> unless you have artefacts in your shadows.(Slower than a single area_light but 
> still reasonably fast)

> You can try the version 3.7 beta and add "area_illuminate".

  The latter should be considerable faster than the former (and get better
highlights) because it's able to use optimizations which are not possible
if you create separate light sources.

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                                                          - Warp


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