clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 13.03.2018 um 20:12 schrieb Kenneth:
>
> > I guess the safest bet right now is: Don't set rad 'brightness ' below .021!
> > Which nobody would normally do anyway ;-)
>
> Actually, the safest bet is: Don't set radiosity brightness to
> /anything/ other than 1.0 in the first place! It wrecks realism anyway.
>

Interesting. My (apparently outdated) philosophy of reducing brightness comes
from v3.6.2 days-- when things were a bit screwy all around, in hindsight ;-)
Thanks.

re: the slowdown...
> But alas! Those measures suffer from precision problems: One value that
> should be /at least/ adc_bailout + EPSILON is passed around with the
> same precision as colour values (i.e. single precision, as opposed to
> double precision like most math stuff), causing it to be rounded,
> sometimes ending up /smaller than/ adc_bailout.

Ah, that ol' single-precision vs. double-precision devil. (Uh, as if I know what
I'm talking about, ha.) Glad to see that you were able to figure out how to
'exorcise the demon' !  Nice detective work.

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