Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Could someone briefly explain to me the format of the file saved in 
>> the radiosity save_file directive.
> 
> These files contain a text representation of the radiosity data tree 
> generated by POV-Ray.  Direction vectors are stored in a special 
> compressed form.  For the details you should have a look at the POV-Ray 
> source code but for understanding most parts of it you need some deeper 
> understanding of the inner workings of the radiosity feature.

Thanks, that satisfied my curiosity, and I think I understand the format 
of the file a bit more, now. As I suspected, the compressed information 
exists in the hex numbers (normal and direction to source). The 2 values 
I didn't understand are distance values.

> Don't expect the format not to change in future versions of POV-Ray.

Understood :) I don't intend on releasing tools to deal with this file, 
but manly for my own personal meddling...

> Christoph
> 


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~Mike

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