Veronica Alveari wrote:
> Alright, I just downloaded POVray v3.5 and Moray v3.5, set everything up
> properly, make a glass object (sphere, transparent, IOR 1.45) to test out
> those fancy schmancy photons I've been hearing so little about, and nothing
> happened.  In fact, with photons enabled, the transparent object actually
> cast a shadow.  Mirrors I've tried don't do anything.  No reflection,
> nothing.  I remembered to enable photons globally, on the light source, and
> designated the object as a no-gather target.
> What could be going wrong and how do I fix it?

Basically, photons are ornery li'l varmints, and they're shy, to boot.
Make certain that the background upon which you are casting the photons
is not set as a target, and increase count/decreae spacing.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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