POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : [Lighting Help] : Re: [Lighting Help] Server Time
30 Jul 2024 12:21:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: [Lighting Help]  
From: Ken
Date: 6 Aug 1999 11:24:58
Message: <37AAFD74.E295EBB1@pacbell.net>
Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 20:47:00 -0700, Ken wrote:
> >I don't recall if Pov v3.0 allowed light settings
> >higher that one but you can in pov v3.1 have a light source with a much
> >brighter light that you could in say v2.2 by using values like the following
> >example:
> 
> v2.2 allowed components higher than one.  I'm not aware of any version
> that didn't, but I really got started with POV again in 2.2.  The only
> version I'd used before that was too long ago to remember.

This may have been true but I did not know about it because the v2.2 docs do
not mention that it is possible and I picked up on the idea here in these
news groups. Just doing my part to pass on what is not intuitively obvious
to everyone.

-- 
Ken Tyler
  
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm


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