POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Fade Cutoff : Re: Fade Cutoff Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:25:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fade Cutoff  
From: clipka
Date: 13 Apr 2010 07:40:24
Message: <4bc45828$1@news.povray.org>
Am 13.04.2010 13:26, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:

>> How about instead of it being a parameter related to fading lights, it's
>> simply a parameter related to lights in general
>
> It's an alternative. But if you intend to use cutoff for artistic
> effect, you'd probably need to set it on a per light_source basis.
> And if it's only about speedup or artefact avoidance, adc_bailout
> might suffice.

As far as I understand, Warp's suggestion is merely making the setting 
available for non-fading light sources as well (which doesn't hurt 
anybody as long as the default for non-fading lights would be "infinite").


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