POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : YMFWR : Re: YMFWR Server Time
1 Oct 2024 11:25:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: YMFWR  
From: Sigmund Kyrre Aas
Date: 24 Aug 2000 09:46:59
Message: <39A52201.53033970@kyrre.net>
Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 2. While experimenting with different settings, I found that the default
> radiosity DOESN'T CAST SHADOWS. Madness, I tell you, madness! By far the
> most important change to the standard radiosity in this scene is setting
> an absurdly low error_bound (0.3, I think) in the global block; it made
> all the difference. Note that the shadows will be really patchy unless
> you also use an absurdly low pretrace_end.

Aha! I've never figured how to make ambient lights cast good shadows. Thanks a
million!

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