This is something I've been wondering for a long time.  The docs say: 
"Also note that shadowless lights will not cause highlights on the 
illuminated objects."

Now, I understand shadowless lights are meant to be used as fill lights, 
and having fill lights cause highlights is often not desired, but there 
are situations (and I seem to run into them a lot) where a 
highlight-causing-shadowless-light_source would be quite useful.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a separate way of turning off 
highlights for a light_source, independant of it's (lack of) casting 
shadows?

cu!
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ZK

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Zeger Knaepen <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to have a separate way of turning off 
> highlights for a light_source, independant of it's (lack of) casting 
> shadows?

  Or, to remain backwards-compatible, a way to turn highlights on for a
shadowless light source.

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On 21/01/2011 15:52, Warp wrote:
> Zeger Knaepen<zeg### [at] povplacecom>  wrote:
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to have a separate way of turning off
>> highlights for a light_source, independant of it's (lack of) casting
>> shadows?
>
>    Or, to remain backwards-compatible, a way to turn highlights on for a
> shadowless light source.

I was thinking the same just after I clicked "Send" :)

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