Thomas de Groot wrote:
> This is a question for Jaime! But anyone who has a smart answer.... :-)
> 
> I am using Lightsys IV in one of my scenes to simulate outdoors sunlight. I 
> remark that the shadows are cast by a point light sun. Is it possible to 
> change that to an area light within Lightsys? I tried by adding the area 
> light code and scaling that up, but I see no change.
> 

   In my town street scene, I used an area light for the sun, and also 
had trouble with it showing the effect... Finally I found that the area 
size has to be *really* big for the default DomeSize of skylight.inc

   I just did a quick test, adding this area light statement to the sun 
light on "demo_outdoor.pov":

   area_light 10000*x,10000*y,10,10 jitter adaptive 1 orient circular

   and it worked nicely (I tried first with 1000 units, but the area 
didn't show).

   Hope this helps...

--
Jaime

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