POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Simple background : Re: Simple background Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:30:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Simple background  
From: Charles C
Date: 27 Apr 2007 19:40:00
Message: <web.463289935ff0de01e94cc5130@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Ansgar <Tem### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> > I'd like to define a background colour that just paints the background in
> > the given colour but does *not* affect the scene, like being reflected in
> > mirror materials. Can it be done?
>
>   Well, you could put a large inverted sphere of the specified color and
> assign 'no_reflection' to it.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp


You might also want ambient 1 on that large sphere to get the exact color.
You aren't using radiosity are you?  I'm not sure what Warp meant by
inverted.
Charles


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