POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Blurred reflection comparison : Re: Blurred reflection comparison Server Time
6 May 2024 05:16:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blurred reflection comparison  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 18 Feb 2018 21:07:12
Message: <5a8a3150$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/18/2018 8:03 PM, clipka wrote:
> Make sure that your materials have an `interior { ior FLOAT }` setting.
> For LEGO materials, I recommend a value of 1.6.
> 
> When `fresnel` is set to `on`, the intensity of reflections not only
> depends on the viewing angle, but also on the ratio between the
> refractive index of the material and the refractive index of the medium
> around (typically the "atmosphere", which has an ior of 1.0). The more
> this ratio deviates from 1.0, the stronger the reflections will be.
> 
> By default, POV-Ray materials have an IOR of 1.0.
> 

Thanks, that worked. Would you be willing to take a look at each of the 
different LDraw materials? Currently, there are about 7 different ones, 
I think.


Mike


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