"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message 
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> Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
>>
>> In case you hadn't noticed, there's a lack of shadow behind the guy's heel 
>> too.
>
> I've had that problem when working on small scales, but not on a scale that i
> feel should challenge POV's floating point accuracy.  As far as i can
> determine, it's a bug.

It's a feature! POV-Ray has to avoid self shadowing, actually I've meanwhile 
checked
the sourcecode to confirm my statements made in this thread:

http://news.povray.org/47fbebb1$1@news.povray.org

Maybe this "epsilon value " should be made adjustable by the user?


Thomas, I'm quite sure this is your problem, especially as you say you scaled 
your
poser figure by 0.2 and I usually scale them by a factor of 200.

-Ive

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