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29 Jul 2024 02:35:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity Status: Giving Up...  
From: nemesis
Date: 30 Dec 2008 14:20:00
Message: <web.495a740fcd9d1e75180057960@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Cleanup Parse Warning: This rendering uses the following experimental
> feature(s): radiosity. The desing and implementation of these features is likely
> to change in future version of POV-Ray. Full backward compatibility with the
> current implementation is NOT guarenteed."
>
> This tells me that, in future versions, the way to handle radiosity may change.
>
> This also tels me that the result may change from version to version, even if
> the parameters do stay the same.
>
> So, after seeing that warning, if any scene using radiosity, or photons, don't
> give the same final image between 3.6 end 3.7, i'd say that it's NORMAL and
> EXPECTED.

That message was part of 3.5 as well and perhaps earlier.  An "experimental"
feature that has been around for, what?, 10 years.  That's even longer than
Google eternal betas... :))


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