POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Invisible Reflecting Object : Re: Invisible Reflecting Object Server Time
6 Oct 2024 12:54:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Invisible Reflecting Object  
From: Ravious
Date: 4 Oct 2006 14:15:00
Message: <web.4523f9ce770c1397176347e30@news.povray.org>
> Check out no_image, no_shadow and no_reflect.
>
> Also, if you're shining a spotlight on the thing and expecting to see
> spots of light all over the place, you'll be needing photons to do that.
> What you could do (not sure if it will work properly) is run POV-Ray
> once with the object there as normal (to generate the photon map), and
> then run POV-Ray again with the same photon map but with the object removed.

I knew about no_shadow, but didn't know about the other two.  I will try out
the photon map as well.  Thanks for your help.


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