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  Re: difference in lighting between 3.6 and 3.7  
From: Alain
Date: 8 Nov 2010 11:33:24
Message: <4cd82654@news.povray.org>

> With the betas of v3.7 I sometimes have noticable differences in lighting
> compared to images rendered with v3.6. Will all betas for 3.7 behave in the same
> way, and the final version too?
> TIA
> Steven
>
>

Short: Yes.

Long: It's due to the way of handeling gamma. 3.7 computes colours in a 
linear space, then apply the gamma to the output file and preview. If 
the gamma is not set properly in the ini file(s), then the output gets 
bright or dark.
If you output to PNG, the file is writen using a linear space end gets a 
gamma chunk with the proper gamma information.

Do NOT use assumed_gamma when using 3.7.
It have very limited support, only 2 values are recognised, and will be 
completely droped in some future.


Alain


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