> Am 06.05.2010 10:19, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>> This info is unclear to me: what is the default value of the new
>> radiosity
>> parameter maximum_reuse, and how to best use it in combination with
>> minimum_reuse? Maybe a little addition to the Radiosity Voodoo can be
>> expected...? ;-)
>
> maximum_reuse defaults to 0.2 - which was also the hard-coded value in
> POV-Ray 3.6.
>
> In a nutshell, the parameter governs the maximum effective radius of
> radiosity samples in just the very same way as minimum_reuse governs the
> minimum effective radius; a value of 0.2, for instance, means that a
> sample at X units distance from the camera will be re-used within a
> radius of at most 0.2*X units.
>
> Obviously this parameter should be > minimum_reuse at all times. While
> reducing the value will almost certainly increase rendering times, it
> might be useful e.g. in cases where you have wide open spaces with a few
> comparatively small objects, which the radiosity pretrace might tend to
> miss otherwise.

What will appen if you set it to low: smaller than minimum_reuse?
An error, a warning and proceede, a warning and use the default value 
instead,...



Alain

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