On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:41:29 GMT, Lutz Kretzschmar wrote:
>Hi POV-gurus,
>
>A Moray user asked me whether it was possible to create the following
>effect:
>
>he wants to create a scene with a floor and a number of reflecting
>objects. The objects should not reflect the floor, however, they
>should only reflect each other. Is this at all possible? I pretty much
>assume it's impossible with the official 3.1, so I'm wondering whether
>MegaPOV or SuperPatch or any other patches would allow this.

What about shadows?

If you make the floor bounded_by a miniscule sphere around the camera, 
it will work for most camera angles.  If they need shadows of the spheres
on the floor as well, they'll need to bound by a union of miniscule 
spheres around the camera and each light source.

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