POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The Struggle (aka Dandelion v1) : Re: Version 2 Server Time
7 Aug 2024 13:16:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Version 2  
From: Chambers
Date: 23 Feb 2006 15:05:08
Message: <43fe1574@news.povray.org>

> Chambers wrote:
>> As I said, the bumpiness shows correctly where the window cuts out of
>> the bricks, but the other sides are completely smooth.  This is
>> frustrating me extremely.
>>
> 	That's because there is no light inside: it's all lit by ambient
> which gives a perfectly flat shading. I see two ways to change that:
>  - Get rid of the ambient and add a shadowless light source at the
> same place as the camera;
>  - Or model roughly the whole room and use radiosity.

Heh - one step ahead of you, the version 2 already has an inside light 
source :)  So sadly, that's not the problem :(

Anyway, I've changed the scene composition to work around this problem, 
as you'll see in the next version.

...Chambers


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