On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:44:51 -0500, TigerHawk wrote...
> > I wasn't having a go at you, honest.
> 
> Hehaehae....no worries, I've done far worse anyways :)

No, it's just that recently I've noticed my postings seeming to be 
incredibly caustic and inflammatory, and I'm not doing it deliberately.  
maybe I'm just having one of those months <sigh>

> > All that the looks_like tag does is create internally a group containing
> > the light source and the object it looks like.
> 
> Hmm...the way I understand it is that if I were to to do it manually, I would place
> the light source directly infront of whatever I am assigning as a light source (we
> will say a light bulb). I thought looks_like eliminated the need to do that (so the
> object acts as the light, casting light uniformally)? That's the way I thought about
> it - correct me if I'm wrong :)

You can create a sphere at <0,0,0> and a point light source at <0,0,0> 
and as long as you set the sphere to no_shadow, the light source will 
apply to the rest of the scene as if the sphere wasn't there.

As far as I understand it, this is all that POV does internally when you 
specify a looks_like.  (Although it creates a group containing the light 
and sphere, which is easy enough to do in Moray :)

In other words, all looks_like does is put a visible, completely 
transparent (can you say oxymoron? :) object around the light source.  
The light source still acts as a point/spot/area light, regardless of how 
big the looks_like object is.

Did that make any sense?  And if not, would somebody else like to try 
explaining it?

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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