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From: cartun
Subject: Why not everything is black when no light?
Date: 28 Oct 2011 12:00:01
Message: <web.4eaad0591a352fe8f07302560@news.povray.org>

Hello friends,

I have a scene with only a light (a little Spotlight).
This light has a limited radius to illuminate (please see the Link to the
Picture).

But why everything else has a certain brightness and is not completely black?
No light nothing to see anything or not?

You can see in the Picture the Letter A, A = Background = Black
B = Plane without light but to see in Gray

Why ist the Plane (without Lightbeams) not totaly Black?

Thanks for your Help mate!

Here the Link:

http://s1.directupload.net/images/111028/xld8amyh.jpg

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Why not everything is black when no light?
Date: 28 Oct 2011 12:11:32
Message: <4eaad433@news.povray.org>

cartun <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> But why everything else has a certain brightness and is not completely black?
> No light nothing to see anything or not?

  Because there's an ambient factor to the lighting calculations. You
have to set it to 0 in global_settings to turn it off.

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                                                          - Warp

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From: cartun
Subject: Re: Why not everything is black when no light?
Date: 28 Oct 2011 13:55:01
Message: <web.4eaaebd2b49b8e3e9c503b450@news.povray.org>

wow, thanks.. it works! my bad..

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