POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Tetrahedral planetoid : Re: Tetrahedral planetoid Server Time
29 Apr 2024 09:36:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tetrahedral planetoid  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 13 Jun 2019 16:25:01
Message: <web.5d02b0277edc39d71b6c6b3a0@news.povray.org>
Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 6/12/2019 1:05 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> >> Also, a night scene would be pretty cool.
> >
> > Aha, yes could be good. I'd need many lights though, which could be problematic.
> > Moonlight perhaps.
> >
>
> I think you can make a light source only affect certain objects using
> "light_group", thus reducing rendering time.

Yes, that's the problem I had in mind! Will be quite fiddly to segregate this
scene given how it's been assembled. I think emissive windows / lightblobs with
UberPOV's count cranked up is the way I'll be heading...


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