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26 Apr 2024 01:00:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QUESTION: How to Emit Light?  
From: Stephen
Date: 2 Dec 2017 05:26:48
Message: <5a227fe8$1@news.povray.org>
On 02/12/2017 09:51, clipka wrote:
> Am 02.12.2017 um 09:04 schrieb Sven Littkowski:
>> On 02.12.2017 00:01, clipka wrote:
>>> What do you mean by "illuminate their neighborhood"? Do you want the
>>> rings to cast light onto nearby objects, or do you want a glowing "halo"
>>> around the rings?
>>
>> Hi, thanks for your time. :-)
>>
>> I want to cast light onto nearby objects without having to use radiosity
>> (I get already a nice illumination with radiosity, but I like it without
>> radiosity, too, if possible), but I also want a glow around the objects.
> 
> To cast light onto nearby objects, the only alternative to radiosity I'm
> aware of would be fill lights (light sources with `shadowless`), but I'd
> expect them to be difficult to set up for your use case (you don't want
> the ring itself to be illuminated by the fill lights, for instance).
> 

Would everything but the rings in a light group, work?


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Regards
     Stephen


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