Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> FexFX wrote:
> > Are there built in limits to size and distance in povray?
>
> <http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/misconceptions.html#simulatingsun>

Unfortunately this does not really answer my question.
The "stars" in question are not being used as light sources...
Are you suggesting that the problems I am having are due to these objects
trying to recieve light from the light sources in my scene?
Because even without light sources The scene slows to a crawl (about 1/100th
the speed) if i try to place an object at 5 million units away from the
camera...and then no matter how large I make it the object will not show up
unless some edge of the object is within ~500,000 units...
That is what I was looking for a reson for...I am perfectly fine with
running this with the solar system not to actual scale, but stars sould be
quadrillions of units away from the camera yet I can only place them a mere
500k units away before things crash to a standstill.

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