Eli wrote:
> Does MegaPOV take area_light into account while calculating photons?

There is no difference between official POV-Ray and MegaPOV in this 
concern.  With both you can optionally include area light sampling in 
the photon mapping.

> And if it does, would I be able to read it back in POV-Ray (load_file 
> "some-photondata-file") after MegaPOV has stored it on disk (with save_file 
> "some-photondata-file")?

There are currently no photon mapping related patches in MegaPOV so you 
can surely use MegaPOV generated photon map files in POV-Ray.  Note 
however that the photon map file format is not portable in general.

Christoph

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