Christoph,

A transparent surface like glass for example works fine.  What I am talking
about is a .GIF texture with an assigned color to be transparent, such as:

#declare mypigment =
pigment
{
 image_map
 {
   gif "lattice.gif"
  transmit 21, 0
 filter   21, 1}
 scale <1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000>
 }

where color 21 is the transparent color that I want radiosity to go through.
Light sources will go through the transparent color but radiosity will not.
I will make a scene tonight to post to the binary section a bit later.

Dean


Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Dean wrote:
> >
> > I have an object that I am  using a .gif texture for.  the reason for
> > this is to use the transparency of selected palette colors.  Is there a
> > way to have radiosity travel through the transparent colors?  Currently
> > I have been trying to use low intensity area lights to try and fake the
> > effect and the result is always much too bright.  I had the same
> > difficulty in V3.1 so I would not call it a bug per se.
>
> I have never had any problems with radiosity and transparent surfaces, if
> you think there is something not working as it should, post a short
> sample.
>
> Christoph
>
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