"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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| In article <399b2031$1@news.povray.org>, "Bob Hughes"
| <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
|
| > Nathan has probably said before that media won't show a reflected
| > light, just not sure when or where if he did say so.
|
| Actually, it *will* work. Media interaction is one of the features added
| in one of the more recent versions. It takes a lot of computation time
| and memory, but it works, and there was a laser-beam scene demonstrating
| it. There is also a sample scene demonstrating media-photon
| interaction(mediaphot.pov), maybe you should look at it for ideas.

Okay, I got it now, thanks so much for pointing out that sample scene file.
All I had to do is set reflection to on in the sphere and I saw the
spotlight shining back from it.  Great thing.  Now I have gotten a cylinder
spotlight to actually show up too, the weird thing is there wasn't really
any obvious reason for the not-working and working ways.  It's almost
metamorphosing the more I try to use it.  Typical thing because of so many
possible media settings I guess.  I at first even thought it was all because
of the sample file having a 'media on' in the photon block.   Not so.  I
tried with and without and get the laser light reflected in the media.
Curious to say the least.  I'm going to post this test render I have to
p.b.i. in a few minutes so it will prove to others it can be done.

Bob

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