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From: Francois Dispot
Date: 29 Aug 2000 14:43:23
Message: <39AC0443.4109EA0B@club-internet.fr>
Alan Nickerson wrote:
> 
> This morning, I took a closer look at the real tunnels and the tunnel
> lighting is wrong, the small tunnels only have lights on the 'outside'.
> You say it looks flat and your right, but the lighting in the real world of
> this isnt really very good either. Using area lights for each flourecent
> light slows things down a lot, and I'm still trying to get the textures
> right.

Don't forget to suppress light buffers when you add many lights. I ran
into strong memory issues while doing a similar scene:

http://perso.club-internet.fr/wozzeck/gl_merc_1.html

... but everything went right after I added Light_Buffers=off

> The scene still needs the cables, pipes and wires that run through the
> tunnels.

Good idea. Gilles Tran's macro, perhaps?

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