POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Radiosity lighting again : Re: Radiosity lighting again Server Time
11 Aug 2024 15:19:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity lighting again  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 31 Mar 2004 19:20:17
Message: <406b6041@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
>> If you use "ambient_light rgb 0" in the global settings, it will have 
>> the effect of multiplying all your ambient finishes by 0. Feeling 
>> clued yet?
> 
> 
> Right. I saw that in the docs. So I can't do that to (say) switch from 
> normal lighting to radiosity, because all my lightbulbs disappear. 
> Instead, I apparently have to edit every texture used to remove any 
> ambient from them individually?

Check out #default. You can use it to set default ambient to 0, and then 
any object you WANT to have ambient can have the value specified in its 
finish.

-Xplo


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