On second thought, I will repeat my complaint that point lights DO NOT WORK with
atmospheric media. This is either a bug or a design flaw.

I wanted the effect of a light bulb inside a wiffle ball in the fog.  I set up a
porous object (based on 3d noise), but a point light inside, and had NO effect.  I
removed my porous object.  There was still no effect.  Thus, I conclude that point
lights do not interact with atmospheric media.

Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> Okay, thanks for the suggestion.  However, I already tried the "container media"
> and the effect was not nearly as cool as that for the spotlight and atmospheric
> media.
>
> Jerome M. BERGER wrote:
>
> >         Is there anything else in the scene besides the media and the light? If
> > not, that's because when you use a spotlight, the samples get
> > concentrated in the lighted cone so the effect is visible, whereas for a
> > pointlight they are distributed along the whole ray and if there's
> > nothing to stop it, the ray goes to infinity... (in fact that's why
> > rather than using atmospheric media, I usually use object media in a
> > very large container: it's easier to tune)
> >
> >                 Jerome
> >
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