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29 Jul 2024 22:27:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Is ambient not right?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 20 Feb 2002 16:13:05
Message: <3C74111C.22B8B863@gmx.de>
cadman wrote:
> 
> I posted the pic in p.b.i.:
> 
> Forgive my grammar, I'm not quite sure how else to word it...
> Shouldn't there not be shadows on the plane?  And shouldn't the background
> be flat grey (no light attenuation)?
> 

There are shadows since the diffuse finish is the default value of 0.6 and
the background is not plain flat since the angle towards the light source
changes and therefore the brightness (also due to the diffuse finish).

This all has nothing to do with 3.5 beta of course.

Christoph

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