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29 Jul 2024 20:17:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scattering media, lightgroups and shadowless lights  
From: Coridon Henshaw
Date: 4 Mar 2002 15:37:51
Message: <Xns91C79F01A86C9CQ@204.213.191.226>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3c832a40$1@news.povray.org: 

> In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226> ,
> che### [at] sympaticoca (Coridon Henshaw) wrote:
> 
>> While finding new and better ways to make media explosions, I ran into
>> a serious in that scattering media objects cannot be illuminated by
>> shadowless lights or by lights used in a light_group.  While I know
>> that shadowless lights do some funny things, I tend to think that
>> getting ignored by media is a bit much, and that the light_group
>> problem is a blatant bug. 
 
> Could you check if this is or isn't the same as

The issue with media and light groups appears to be the same as
<3c663dd3$1@news.povray.org>.  While looking at the other report, I also 
noticed that global_lights defaults to 'on' and can't be switched off for 
media objects in a light_group.

The problem with shadowless is separate.


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