POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Lens Flare problem : Re: Lens Flare problem Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:21:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lens Flare problem  
From: Simon de Vet
Date: 22 Dec 1998 21:03:59
Message: <36804FD3.B5D05B0A@istar.ca>
Kyle wrote:

> Simon de Vet wrote:
>
> > Tried out the lens flare, first thing. Made a new scene, with a camera,
> > light, no objects. Made the light visible in the camera's view. Created a
> > lens flare. Set the camera to my cmaera, and the light to my light.
> > Rendered. The poveditor gave me two extensive errors (with lots of
> > FFFFFFFF kinda things (I can copy these down next time)) and my computer
> > locked up
> > entirely.
> > This has happend both times I tried this feature. Ouch.
> >
> > Simon
> > http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
>
> I got the same thing!  For some reason, when the camera was facing away
> from the light, I got no errors, but when facing towards it I recieved
> erros every time.  Is there a problem with the plug-in or am I doing
> something wrong.  I noticed in the PovRay message window it said something
> like the look_at Z coordinate was too long.  It looked like
> 3.43564000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 or
> something like that.  What's wrong?

Hrm... with the camera away, did you get a flare?

Logically, you shouldn't. Only visible lights should create flares.....

Simon
http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet


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