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  Re: why no shadow?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 3 Apr 2004 05:00:01
Message: <c4m1op$2rn$1@chho.imagico.de>
Ian Gilmour wrote:
> Why don't I get a shadow cast on the ground from the flags in the following
> scene?
> I just see a shadow from the pole and the edge of the flag?
> 
> [...]

Without actually testing your scene - it might be related to the use of 
isosurfaces in CSG, see the docs for what's written about isosurfaces in 
CSG and max_trace at the end of section 6.5.4.1:

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/169/

Christoph

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