POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The Colony Ship : Re: The Colony Ship Server Time
5 Jul 2024 15:50:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Colony Ship  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 12 Feb 2016 14:13:30
Message: <56be2eda$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/12/2016 8:12 AM, clipka wrote:
> 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 ;)
>

Is this wiki page wrong?

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Light_Source


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