"Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote:
> It seems if i turn photons on, fade_color on the sphere part of the
> exclamation mark disappears and is rendered simply as clear glass. with
> photons off, the sphere is rendered colored. Scene file is in
> povray.text.scene-files. Does anyone see an error in my pov script? Am I
> missing a photons option? The same occurs, if i remember correctly, with
> radiosity off.

Hi Ross,

I've had a quick look at your code, and I suggest that you use 'collect off'
in your photon block for the sphere - it's accumulating too many photons
and they are swamping the subtler effects.

See the 3.6 docs: 3.6.3.3  Photons FAQ and also look at the example scenes
in scenes/lights/ phot_met_glass.pov and glassthing.pov by Christoph
Hormann. There is a sign error in glassthing.pov, which causes the base of
the object to overlap with the floor, so you might want to fix that before
rendering.

Nice glass, BTW... I can't wait to see your final version.

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