Are you saying simply don't use the "global" keyword in either place (light
source or global_settings), and the rest of the example in the manual is OK?
That is, there is still stuff in the "global_settings" block -- that has
nothing to do with global photons?

And just what are global photons?

--John

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3aabe409$1@news.povray.org> , "John M. Dlugosz"
> <joh### [at] dlugoszcom> wrote:
>
> > What are "global photons", as in "Light sources can also generate global
> > photons. To enable this feature, put the keyword global in the light
> > source's photon block." ?
>
> Using "global_photons" is not recommended right now (because they don't
> work perfectly, they are kind of experimental).  For now you should only
> use photons for individual objects as explained in the MegaPOV
> documentation and sample files.  Doing so will assume compatibility of
> your scene with POV-Ray 3.5.
>
>
>       Thorsten
>
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