POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Function Light Source : Re: Function Light Source Server Time
27 Jun 2024 13:55:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Function Light Source  
From: Trevor G Quayle
Date: 28 Mar 2011 08:10:00
Message: <web.4d907a56d8ed70c81c811d20@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> > I was trying to do something similar again, but I have the problem
> > that my spheres shadow other lights in the scene.
>
> How large are these spheres? I would have guessed that to
> diminish light from a point light the sphere might be made
> very small (barring floating point accuracy issues), maybe
> up to the point that its shadow for other light sources
> is no longer perceptible?

Yes this would work mostly, however there were instances where I want to apply
area light settings to the light as well, and in that case, the sphere needs to
be larger than the light size.

-tgq


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