Thanks Jaime,

This describes pretty much exactly what I want to do.  Could you send me a small
sample script that shows the semantic for doing this?

Thanks,

John

Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

> > What I'm trying to do is compute a lightmap projection for certain
> > triangles in the scene.  The raytracer needs to consider the entire
> > scene but not *render* the entire scene; just the sub-section.
>
>    Do you know you can bake textures/lightmaps with the new mesh_camera?
> As long as your subsection is a separate mesh, you can render only the
> lightmap for that mesh, while taking into account the rest of the scene
> (i.e. the scene will cast shadows/radiosity on your lightmap). Look up
> the basic example on scenes/camera/mesh_camera/baking_demo.pov, it
> should get you started...
>
>    Regards,
>
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> Jaime Vives Piqueres
>
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