"Reactor" <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> > No radiosity for this scene (yet); rad and photons together have some issues
> > that I haven't solved.
> >
>
> I, too, have had a large amount of problems using radiosity and photons at the
> same time.  As a result, I typically render an image in 3 or more passes - a
> radiosity pass using save_file, a seperate photon pass also saving the results,
> then a final pass when the radiosity and photon data is loaded.

I actually did try some experiments with that idea--out of desperation-- and it
looked very promising. (It was the *only* way I could figure out how to
eliminate the problem.) And I did discover some interesting things along the
way, about how they interact. I didn't pursue it far enough, though. :-[ Yet
another *tangent* to pursue; after all that shapes.inc stuff, I figured I'd
better finish the scene first. I *will* get back to it. Good to know that
others are thinking along the same lines.

KW

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