POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The Colony Ship : Re: The Colony Ship Server Time
5 Jul 2024 15:48:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Colony Ship  
From: clipka
Date: 12 Feb 2016 08:14:02
Message: <56bdda9a$1@news.povray.org>
Am 12.02.2016 um 09:59 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> 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.

IIRC you're wrong ;)


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