"Afishionado" <afi### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering: Would it be feasable to use radiosity with a sky sphere to
> generate HDR-ish effects from within Pov-ray?
>
> Since sky_spheres only take pigments, not full textures, I can't see how to
> do it directly with a sky_sphere. If I simply apply a sky_sphere pigment to
> a scaled up sphere, the pigment gets all messed up, because sky_spheres map
> pigments differently than a normal sphere.

Why use a sky_sphere? A regular sphere works ok. Have a look at Jaime Vives
Piqueres' web page for a simple way to do pseudo-HDRI lighting in standard
POV.

http://www.ignorancia.org/tips.php

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