POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Shadowless spotlights, : Re: Shadowless spotlights, Server Time
2 Sep 2024 00:14:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Shadowless spotlights,  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 24 Jul 2000 10:13:45
Message: <397C4E3E.BA7EDEB4@inapg.inra.fr>
Warp wrote:

> Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote:
> : From the manual:
> : "Shadowless may be used with area_light but not spotlight or cylinder."
>
>   I wonder what's the point in using a shadowless area_light. As far as I
> know, it's a waste of time (using a point light would make no difference?).

Probably Povray just goes by the saying that everything that is not
formallyforbidden is authorised...
G.


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