POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : soft shadows : Re: soft shadows Server Time
8 Jul 2024 08:01:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: soft shadows  
From: Jamie Davison
Date: 11 Jan 2002 15:20:47
Message: <MPG.16a9599a588f0d68989aa8@news.povray.org>
> :>   Not really. You need area_light for that.
> 
> : Or you can use lots and lots of point lights or spotlights with 
> : fade_power etc set.
> 
>   But why would you want to do so? area_lights do exactly that, but you
> can use adaptive sampling in order to seed up the rendering.

I didn't say you waould want to, I was merely correcting your assertion 
that you *had* to use area lights.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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