Bob Hughes wrote:

> Ah, but it's a post =rendering= process actually, and not really a post process
> per se.  Since it is using the scene file info to do it then I can't see why it
> wouldn't be legal for IRTC submission.  It's very much the same as any other
> in-render effect only done separately, kind of like moving the reflection
> raytracing outside of the usual loop and applying it afterward (if that was a
> possibility).

    But where does on draw the line?

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> That's how I see it anyway.  Well, 'soft_glow'  could very well be illegal since
> it doesn't use scene info I suppose.  If anything I believe Nathan Kopp will
> have to be the ultimate judge on this by giving an account as to what is done in
> a raytrace/rendering sort of way or not.  Same about the proposed lens flare
> post process and whatever else of future versions that might be done in this
> fashion.

    I do question lens flare by someone else's macro vice from PS or the like. What
is really the difference? I am certain a descent image can be made entirely of OPMs,
other people's macros. How to score that? 1 technical I would guess  but the rest?

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