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2 Sep 2024 06:15:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: pass_through in looks_like  
From: Sigmund Kyrre Aas
Date: 9 May 2000 10:24:38
Message: <39181FA7.42DD8F21@stud.ntnu.no>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   In general photons act a bit ilogically with shadowless object. When you
> make an object shadowless and the light passes through that object, it's
> logical to expect photons to pass through as well. I don't know why the
> shadowless-keyword is ignored by the photons calculations.

Yes, well I don't know either why there's a seperate keyword for photons and
regular lights. More flexibility I guess. What I'm saying is that
pass_through could have been enabeled by default for looks_like objects,
just as shadowless is.

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