m1j wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that this duplicated manner would be quite slow. I was
> looking for a way to force the radiosity calculation to gather a high and
> thus brighter value from the media. 

The slowdown depends on how expensive the intersection test for the 
container is - but unless you use an extremely slow isosurface or 
similar it is unlikely that this is considerable compared to the media 
evaluation - there are no additional media calculations necessary with 
this technique.

> A media multiplier value. I was looking
> for the location in the code that this value could be placed. I speculated
> that it could be one location or many. I just did not know where to look.

The place is sample_media() in media.cpp.  As it is you don't have a way 
to determine if the evaluation is in a radiosity ray or not (the 
NO_RADIOSITY_PATCH in MegaPOV provides one though).

Christoph

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