POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Fade Cutoff : Re: Fade Cutoff Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:17:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fade Cutoff  
From: clipka
Date: 12 Apr 2010 09:56:36
Message: <4bc32694@news.povray.org>
Am 12.04.2010 13:51, schrieb Warp:

>> How about automatically computing this from light brightness and
>> adc_bailout?
>
>    I don't think you can because how visible the lighting is depends on the
> color of the surface being lighted. If the color is very bright, it will be
> more easily visible than if it's dark.

That, while being true, shouldn't prevent from computing a fade cutoff 
distance where the light will no longer have any noticeable effect on a 
worst-case" surface (e.g. weight = 1.0).


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