MikeH wrote:
> 
> The recent discussion about Arnold in the renderman newsgroup got me
> interested in trying the specific hemispherical light effect in POV.
> Apparently Arnold uses a kind of spherical area light to achieve the
> effect, which should be possible to add to POV I would think.  Anyway, I
> tried doing it with just a sky_sphere - It only took 10 minutes to
> render but the shadows still look stinky.  this scene has no lights,
> radiosity settings as follows:

<chop>

Lower your pretrace_end to at least .01; this won't completely smooth
the shadows, but it helps. You can go even lower if you want, but values
smaller than .01 don't seem to have a significant effect on either
quality or render time as far as I can tell.

Aside from that, looks good!

-Xplo

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