On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:54:36 +0100, "Gergely Vandor"
<ger### [at] vandordatanethu> wrote:

>The shadowless keyword turns off highlights for the light source. I know
>this has been covered before, but it would be great if (a) users had an
>option to turn them back on or (b) at least the docs gave some explanation
>(I believe they don't).

They don't, but I'll give you a simple explanation. Shadowless lights
were designed to be used as fill lights in times where radiosity was
still a dream. They are even called 'fill lights' (or something
similar, I'll have to recheck) in the source code. As such, they were
never supposed to cause highlights.

There are some hacks you can try, simple and more complex, but at this
stage it's too late to change the feature set. Sorry to say that.


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