Am 12.02.2016 um 20:13 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> 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

Yes (though I was, too):

- Yes, there is a hard limit to the number of light sources (which I
wasn't aware of).

- No, the limit is no longer 127(!) light sources as mentioned in the
wiki, but 1024.

Also, it may be interesting to note that the limit is only relevant if
you're using photons or media.

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