POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Light Diffusion : Re: Light Diffusion Server Time
30 Jul 2024 12:25:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Light Diffusion  
From: Kenneth
Date: 21 Feb 2009 00:25:00
Message: <web.499f8f22231b2f5ff50167bc0@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> By the sounds of it, you want to use area lights, not spotlights.
> Spotlights in pov are treated as point lights, but have attenuated edges of the
> lighted area, the shadows are still sharp.

Wouldn't a spotlight made into an area_light solve it?  Or perhaps I'm not
reading his question correctly.

Ken W.


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