On 4 Mar 2002 15:56:08 -0500, che### [at] sympaticoca (Coridon Henshaw)
wrote:

>At first glance, most of the fix is to modify test_shadow() in lighting.c 
>such that shadow tests are performed with shadowless lights (remove 
>(Light->Projected_Through_Object != NULL) from the shadow test conditional) 
>and then to adapt block_point_light() et el so that when handling 
>shadowless lights, filter_shadow_ray() is only called when the shadowed 
>object contains a media.  Unless I've overlooked something major, both of 
>these tasks should be relatively straight forward.

So basically what you're suggesting that objects will not cast shadows
from shadowless lights anywhere except in scattering media? Doesn't it
look a bit inconsistent?


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