"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> "Ian Witham" <ian### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:39a54496@news.povray.org...
> > Maybe someone can help me with that-- in my tests I removed all light
> > sources, I left the screen ambient 1, and everything else ambient 0.
> Using
> > defualt megapov radiosity the screen illuminated precisely nothing...
how
> > can I make it cast a glow??
> >
>
> Hmm, IMHO if you are using radiosity, then ambient should be turned off
> globally (since ambient is essentially fake radiosity). It certainly won't
> contribute to radiosity.

Yeah I know.. but how else can I give it that backlit look?  ambient works
but doesn't cast a glow, so I'm still stuck!

> How about going the whole hog - basically fake a projector and project
your
> image at your screen?

Because it's not a projection, it's a flat plasma screen :-)



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