POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : About distance_maximum : Re: About distance_maximum Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:13:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: About distance_maximum  
From: Carlo C 
Date: 8 Sep 2008 03:25:00
Message: <web.48c4d24094b763ca8b7f1c90@news.povray.org>
"Reactor" <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
> I don't think it is used anymore.  It was another parameter for adjusting
> radiosity under 3.1 where one could set a distance at which a new sample must
> be calculated (i.e. the error of the sample was greater than the specified
> error_bound).  I usually left it as 0 when I did use it, which wasn't the
> fastest setting but garnered correct results.
>
> From my understanding of parameters like that, they really need to be adaptive
> for you to take full advantage anyway.
>
>
> -Reactor

Ok, thanks


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