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From: Alain
Date: 6 Jul 2008 12:38:35
Message: <4870f50b$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot nous illumina en ce 2008-07-05 03:29 -->
> "Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
> news:web.486f07c34ab32a2c85de7b680@news.povray.org...
>> 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.  I haven't brought it up in these newsgroups 
>> because i
>> haven't yet reproduced in in a simple scene.
>>
> 
> That is interesting. The scale is reasonably scaled in the present scene. 
> For instance, the figure is scaled to 0.2 from original, so nothing extreme 
> here. However, I am not sure how the hf subdivision in John VanSickle's 
> macro might influence the foreground scaling, although the final hf is 
> scaled up.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
Try not scaling the figure, but scale the rest of the scene up by 5. It should, 
at least, reduce the problem and maybe make it fade away.

-- 
Alain
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