POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Lightsys IV may not work correctly in POV 3.8: Re: Lightsys IV may not work correctly in POV 3.8

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Lightsys IV may not work correctly in POV 3.8 : Re: Lightsys IV may not work correctly in POV 3.8		Server Time 19 Apr 2024 13:07:03 EDT (-0400)

From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 31 Jan 2021 02:20:30
Message: <60165a3e$1@news.povray.org>

Op 30/01/2021 om 21:02 schreef Cousin Ricky:
> See thread "FYI. Watch out for bad color to grey value conversions." in 
> povray.unix.
> 
> Macro Light_Color_Filtered() in Lightsys IV uses .gray, so scenes using 
> this macro are unlikely to have proper lighting under the latest 3.8 
> build.  This situation is temporary, until 3.8 is debugged; but in the 
> meantime, this workaround should work:
> 

Thanks for this. One question: after 3.8 is debugged, do we need to put 
Lightsys IV back to its original values? If yes, it might be worthwhile 
to keep the existing code commented out.

-- 
Thomas

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