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From: clipka
Date: 3 Apr 2009 17:00:00
Message: <web.49d678744ee6dd4e58271f380@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > Christian's idea to leave ambient fully functional in radiosity scenes for
> > compatibility, and expecting the user to actively turn it off by setting
> > ambient_light to 0, seems the most viable solution to me.
> >
> Setting ambient_lights 0 is definetly NOT a viable solution. As you said, it
> effectively turn OFF any and all ambient, for every finish, even those you WANT
> to have an ambient value and emit light.

.... which is *exactly* what we'd have the "emission" statement for, so no
problem.


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