Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Mr <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Is there a way to cheaply tune the amount by which the light brought by
> > double_illuminate can be added?
>
>   Knowing a bit how the povray engine has been implemented, it wouldn't be
> a trivial change. Every object would have to internally carry the factor
> and some flag which tells whether the normal has been inverted or not.
>
> > I'm thinking like an amount of translucency,
> > without changing anything to transparency nor having to use media.
>
>   I think clipka is working on a patch for 3.7 which does exactly that,
> and even better.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

If you're thinking about the SSLT, it's much heavier in computation. But maybe
he has plans for implementing translucency too... Anyway He's doing a great job
already. And Im sure there is a way by mixing several materials when I'm more
familiar with that.

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