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From: Kevin Ellis
Date: 16 Mar 2002 05:26:28
Message: <3c931dd4$1@news.povray.org>
"Coridon Henshaw" <che### [at] sympaticoca> wrote in message
news:Xns### [at] 204213191226...

> It looks pretty good already, IMO.

Thankyou.

> > Also I can't seem to get fade_power, color and distance to work
> > properly. The light doesn't seem to be fading in the water,
> > fade_distance of 0.005 it is still transparent. Any hints as to what
> > I'm missing?
>
> If you're using photons, you will have run into (one of?) fade_color's
> undocumented pitfall(s): it doesn't work when photons are present.
>
> Just use a constant type 1 scattering media instead.

No photons but all I can get out of fade_color are bright colours when any
of the colour vectors is 1, when they are lower than 1 I get nothing. Oh
well, I'll look at it more, unless someone has any hints.

Kev


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