"Renato Oliveira" <war### [at] bolcombr> wrote in message
news:3b899b39@news.povray.org...
> > Tony, such a modeling job deserves better attitude than just RTFM the
> > original poster. Besides, the POV-Ray Manual is not officially
> > distributed in Rich Text Format :)
>
> Well, I looked on the POV Language Help docs and I found some reference,
but
> where can I get this RTF manual?

Tony was just referring you to the POV-Ray Scene Help.  RTFM = read the fine
manual (unless you want the vulgar definition).

light_source {0,1
area_light x*3,y*3,3,3 jitter adaptive 1
translate -100*z
rotate <45,45,0>
}

This would create soft-edged shadows from the area light facing directly
toward <0,0,0>.
This light comes from a square on the z plane which is then moved and
rotated into place to keep the plane facing the origin.
jitter prevents shadow banding and adaptive helps smooth it.
Reading the help file tells the basics, using the features helps to
understand it  :-)

Bob H.

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