POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The Colony Ship : Re: The Colony Ship Server Time
5 Jul 2024 16:36:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Colony Ship  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 12 Feb 2016 03:59:16
Message: <56bd9ee4$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/11/2016 4:28 PM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> At the moment, I am using around 2,000 light sources for my ship inside.
> This is, to simulate a long stripe of light (5 km long) and with a white
> inside and sunset colors to the side.
>
> But I am considering to make the central cylinder along the middle axis
> much thicker, and to put an .hdr image around it, emitting light. This
> might MAYBE save me a lot of computing time.
>
> Right now, I have to try to find out, how to create such an .hdr file.
> The wise Internet will tell me...
>

IIRC POV-ray has a limit of 128 light sources.


Mike


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