Hmmm, hadn't thought of trying it with area lights.  Actually, I was trying
to avoid them because of higher render times.  I'll have to give it a try
and see what happens.

BTW, tried one last night with 32 lights and it was almost identical, just
needed a little parameter tweaking.

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Hugo Asm <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> > The trick is to turn shadows off for the array and use a
> > separate light for the shadow casting
>
> You don't need to do that. The book is probably not specifically for
> POV-Ray. If you use just, lets say 16 lights in the dome it should be
enough
> for smooth shadows. They just need to be area_lights, using the minimum of
> samples possible (that is a grid of 2*2).
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
>

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