POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Rope Macro : Re: Rope Macro Server Time
1 Aug 2024 00:18:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Rope Macro  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Jun 2009 11:45:00
Message: <web.4a439a5a99a5bfb694456e660@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> Now that I tried it on 3.6 it clearly needs the following line adding if
> fibres are used and I would imagine it's the same problem for MegaPOV:
> global_settings {max_trace_level 10}
>
> I'm still not really sure why it doesn't need this on the 3.7 beta 32.
> I also notice that the lighting levels are a lot darker on 3.6, but I guess
> you've already spotted that and set Rope_Brightness to 2 to compensate,
> because your scene looks bright enough (or maybe MegaPOV is different from
> 3.6 on lighting levels).

3.7 uses a new scheme of what is counted towards the "max_trace_level" limit:
While 3.6 *always* counts transitions through (semi-) transparent surfaces, 3.7
only counts such transitions if refraction occurs (i.e. if the "ior" values
differ).


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