POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : distance_maximum : Re: distance_maximum Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:10:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: distance_maximum  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 10 Oct 2001 16:21:03
Message: <3BC4ADAF.335E64EF@gmx.de>
Trevor Quayle wrote:
> 
> Windows beta 6
> 
> distance_maximum still gets highlighted as keyword. the docs state that it
> is automatically calculated and doesn't specify that you can change it so
> I'm not sure whether it should still be there or not.  Either it needs to be
> removed from the kewords or added to the docs in the radiosity.
> 

It's still there so scenes using it do not generate an error, but the
value is ignored.  

Maybe it would be good to create a warning if distance_maximum is
specified or brightness is set to 3.3 that old style radiosity settings
will not generate the expected results.

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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