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  Re: Gancaloon: Old City street new version  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 13 Apr 2013 23:15:01
Message: <web.516a1e939de2f64978641e0c0@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 13-4-2013 1:56, s.day wrote:
> > I assume you have ambient_light set to zero in the scene? (looking at the
> > darkness inside the windows would point to this being set I guess).
>
> ambient_light is set at default. I fooled you! ;-) The inside of the
> windows is a surface with pigment {rgb <0,0,0>} as the inside of the
> houses are of no concern. In a later stage, most will get shutters
> and/or bars.

If you're using POV-Ray 3.7, then ambient_light is automatically set to zero
whenever radiosity is used.

(In 3.6, I preferred to set #default { finish { ambient 0 } } rather than mess
around with ambient_light, as glowing objects are impossible with the latter.)


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