I think I have found a bug in the photon mapping patch: It seems that a
spotlight shoots photons at the center of the object instead of in the
direction of the spotlight. I have made a scene which uses a spotlight
and a simulated spotlight(point light inside CSG object) to illustrate
the problem, I will post it to povray.text.scene-files if you want.
Sorry if this is a known thing...
From: Nathan Kopp
Subject: Re: Photon patch and spotlights?
Date: 20 Jun 1999 00:26:03
Message: <376C6C8B.8E77BDF8@Kopp.com>
Post the scene, please.
Chris Huff wrote:
> > I think I have found a bug in the photon mapping patch: It seems that a> spotlight shoots photons at the center of the object instead of in the> direction of the spotlight. I have made a scene which uses a spotlight> and a simulated spotlight(point light inside CSG object) to illustrate> the problem, I will post it to povray.text.scene-files if you want.> Sorry if this is a known thing...
From: Nathan Kopp
Subject: Re: Photon patch and spotlights?
Date: 20 Jun 1999 00:34:55
Message: <376C6E9F.79161A08@Kopp.com>
I just looked at the source code... you're right. I thought I had that
working... now that I think about it, I did but I made a change and must
have broke it. All these bugs. :-(
Hey... at least my bugs don't give people on the net access to your
local hard drive (like those 3 fixes for IE5). ;-)
-Nathan
Chris Huff wrote:
> > I think I have found a bug in the photon mapping patch: It seems that a> spotlight shoots photons at the center of the object instead of in the> direction of the spotlight. I have made a scene which uses a spotlight> and a simulated spotlight(point light inside CSG object) to illustrate> the problem, I will post it to povray.text.scene-files if you want.> Sorry if this is a known thing...
From: Bob
Subject: Re: Photon patch and spotlights?
Date: 20 Jun 1999 02:32:08
Message: <376C8AE1.F684C978@aol.com>
POV-Ray and variations of POV-Ray are probably the only things I've used which I don't
condemn for the programming bugs they might have. If POV shows me a Fatal Exception
error or something doesn't go as expected I utter "Awwww, somethings wrong" to myself,
whereas if it's any other software that goes wrong I can be very intolerant. Guess I
can't hurt the ones I love ;)
Although, maybe I should use video surveillance on myself to see if I am lying about
this because I probably sugar coat the troubles I have with this loveable thing called
POV-Ray.
Nathan Kopp wrote:
> > Hey... at least my bugs don't give people on the net access to your> local hard drive (like those 3 fixes for IE5). ;-)>
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