POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Future development of Pov Ray : Re: Future development of Pov Ray Server Time
31 Jul 2024 18:23:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Future development of Pov Ray  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 7 Feb 2007 05:25:00
Message: <web.45c9a890b2ef64b6731f01d10@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> However, no matter how high your settings are, an ambient object which
> is completely off screen will never light the scene, no matter its size
> or brightness.

I too have lit several scenes using only radiosity, with a large white
sphere behind the camera acting as a light source (this was using MegaPOV,
although I'm unaware of any differences in this regard). My count was
between 800-1200, so perhaps your settings were indeed too low as Warp
suggested.

Bill


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