POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Radiosity troubles in POV. : Re: Radiosity troubles in POV. Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:25:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity troubles in POV.  
From: D J  Brown
Date: 15 Sep 1998 23:05:10
Message: <35ff1cd6.0@news.povray.org>
Sorry, didn't realize I had typed in "Povray" for the name.. Hehe... :)
(red-faced grin)

Ken wrote in message <35FE42E4.58A73427@pacbell.net>...
>HEY everbody ! Povray is now answering questions on this group.
>WOW !
>
>Ken
>
>Povray wrote:
>
>> I'm having the same problems with radiosity not working, with the
exception
>> that mine works -some- of the time. I recall once that radiosity worked
>> after I removed one line, and that was the  -ambient_light Black - line.
>> Then I put it back and it rendered with radiosity fine. I've yet to find
a
>> pattern to radiosity not working after having tried over 75 renderings on
>> the same scene with small modifications. I used the settings below,
having
>> the scale of my scene approximately that shown, and it did not correct
any
>> problems. Is there a bug I should know about that may be causing this?
>>
>> -D.J. Brown
>> Nieminen Mika wrote in message <35d1958f.0@news.povray.org>...
>> >In povray.general Jon Berndt <jsb### [at] hal-pcorg> wrote:
>> >: Very nice, very helpful. I would be interested in seeing the values
you
>> >: used.
>> >
>> >global_settings
>> >{ ambient_light <1,1,1>*4
>> >  radiosity
>> >  { brightness 8
>> >    count 400
>> >    distance_maximum 1
>> >    error_bound .2
>> >    gray_threshold .1
>> >    low_error_factor .5
>> >    minimum_reuse .001
>> >    nearest_count 6
>> >    recursion_limit 1
>> >  }
>> >}
>> >
>> >camera { location -z*17 look_at 0 }
>> >
>> >// Room
>> >difference
>> >{ box { <-12,-9,-19><12,9,12> }
>> >  box { <-11,-8,-18><11,8,11> }
>> >  pigment { rgb <1,1,.8> }
>> >}
>> >box
>> >{ <-11,-8,-18><-10.99,8,11>
>> >  pigment { rgb <1,.5,0> }
>> >}
>> >box
>> >{ <11,-8,-18><10.99,8,11>
>> >  pigment { rgb <0,.5,1> }
>> >}
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >                                                              - Warp. -
>
>
>


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.