POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Radiosity : Re: Radiosity Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:15:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity  
From: Andrew Coppin
Date: 17 Nov 2002 04:33:39
Message: <3dd76273@news.povray.org>
> > So... in short, you can't use radiosity. (Unless it's on a scene where
it
> > won't make any real difference anyway.)
>
> That is not even close to what he said. Radiosity-only lighting is a
> very specific application of the radiosity feature, one which requires
> very large amounts of processing power and careful tuning of settings.

Well, it's sure not easy, I'll agree with you there! ;-)

> Radiosity and ordinary lighting are not mutually exclusive, they are
> complementary. Almost any scene can benefit from radiosity, in my
> experience.

Mmm... well as I say, I've never actually tried to use radiosity before...
Maybe for a different sort of scene it would look good with normal light
sources too... Perhaps I'll try it sometime.

Andrew.


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