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30 Jul 2024 20:31:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Three lights. A Bug?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 7 Oct 2001 06:31:31
Message: <3BC02FE6.AC1F0706@gmx.de>
"Bob H." wrote:
> 
> ambient_light used to be the dominant factor for radiosity but now diffuse
> is so it's suggested ambient_light 0 (or near zero) be used instead whenever
> rendering with radiosity.

It should be mentioned that this is only useful if you don't have *any*
ambient light sources in the scene (like the sky for example).  Otherwise
it's better to leave ambient_light and set the ambient finishes to 0.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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