"Alain" <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote in message 
news:4a41648a$1@news.povray.org...

>> I was surprised that I hadn't needed to increase the POV-Ray 
>> max_trace_level when I developed the outer 'fibre' layer,
>
> With version 3.7, when a transparent object don't have reflection nor an 
> interior with an ior, passing trough such an object don't count toward the 
> max_trace limits. That change happened over 10 versions ago, I think. Now, 
> a ray can pass trough over 500 transparent object, giving over 1000 
> surfaces intersections.

Well that's good. Quite nifty thinking by whoever had that idea. Should save 
quite a few questions on povray.newusers each year :-)

Regards,
Chris B.

Post a reply to this message