In article <3A14A2F2.7A599C3E@flash.net>, gun### [at] flashnet wrote:

> I'm working on my annual Christmas card, and I'm trying to use media 
> to simulate a string of Christmas lights.

Hmm, are you using MegaPOV? If so, you might want to check out the glow 
patch. It might be a good alternative to media for this.


> 1)  Are the media effects dependent on the scale of the container?  For
> example, if my light bulb is contained by a 5 inch or a 50 inch sphere,
> should I expect different results?

Yes. The appearance of media is determined by the distance you see 
through it. If you scale something up by 2, everything will appear twice 
as bright, shadows cast by scattering or absorbing media will be twice 
as dark, etc. because there is twice as much media between any two 
points.


> 2)  Can I have more than one media container in a scene?  I have tried
> to surround each bulb with its own container (a sphere),  but it seems
> that only one of the containers works.  The rest don't do anything.

You can have as many containers as you want, they are just ordinary 
objects. Are you making sure that all the containers have "hollow" 
specified and are not in any non-hollow objects?

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Christopher James Huff
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