POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : default light source in 3.7? : Re: default light source in 3.7? Server Time
4 Jul 2024 13:19:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: default light source in 3.7?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 20 Nov 2009 10:06:48
Message: <4b06b088@news.povray.org>
Gyscos wrote:
> stbenge <UN### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>
>> You may also use #default{finish{ambient 0}} anywhere in your scene
>> file. 3.7 gives me no problems this way.
>>
>> Happy Povving,
>>
>> Sam
> 
> This woudln't do the same actually.
> To have the same result as 3.6, you have to change the gamme in the ini
> settings
> :
> Display_Gamma=1.0 File_Gamma=1.0
> 
> This is because the default gamma changed from 1.0 in povray 3.6 to 2.2 in
> povray 3.7 ; so if you just change back the gamma, everything will be back
> to normal. And this isn't the same as turning off default ambient, because
> even with gamma 1.0, unlit objects will look dark but not black.

Total black should be unaffected by any gamma correction...


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