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  Re: Dream Tank, part 2 (78k BU)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 7 Feb 2002 06:02:03
Message: <3C625EAB.D904BCC0@gmx.de>
Rich wrote:
> 
>         Well, I've tried several times over the last week to combine radiosity
> and photons, but I'm not getting any love.  I'm using 2x2 area lights in
> each of the pendants, and photons{ collect off } on all objects exept the
> water.  Any hints?  My settings are as follows:
> 
> [...]

'photons{ collect off }' should only be used if you don't want photons to
be visible on that object.  Like Nathan mentioned count should be much
higher.  

Concerning the radiosity settings, with error_bound 0.1 you probably need
a lower pretrace_end or turn samples during final trace on.

Christoph

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