POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Micro- vs. Macronormals : Re: Micro- vs. Macronormals Server Time
5 Jul 2024 14:59:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Micro- vs. Macronormals  
From: Edouard Poor
Date: 12 Mar 2009 20:45:00
Message: <web.49b9ab9bd9a6b98506891550@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > A work around for that problem:
>
> (Hum... such things keep making me go, "why can't POV support this natively
> instead of all these work-arounds?" I mean, it's not like this was something
> exotic. Even it was just an SDL statement that under the hood would use the
> same work-arounds, I'd still appreciate it.)

Megapov added blurred reflection via a keyword a long time ago, but the patch
was never rolled back into POV as the averaged normals/textures trick did more
or less the same thing. Or so I've read - someone can correct me if I've
understood that wrong.

Cheers,
Edouard.


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