POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: Background transparency and radiosity: Re: Background transparency and radiosity

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Background transparency and radiosity : Re: Background transparency and radiosity		Server Time 23 Apr 2024 17:33:36 EDT (-0400)

From: Mike Horvath
Date: 23 Feb 2019 22:34:32
Message: <5c7210c8$1@news.povray.org>

On 2/23/2019 4:03 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> How do I create a scene that has a transparent background that is not
>> interpreted as black by radiosity? Thanks.
> 
> 
> Maybe try a large hollow white sphere with the no_object flag set?
> Then it should still have reflection and radiosity.
> 
> 

Thanks! I also set the emission of the sphere to 1.0 and diffuse to 0.0.

This workaround should really be documented.


Mike

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