instances, secondary lighs & mirror [was:Re: [Radiance-general] Re: ies2rad]

Peter Apian-Bennewitz [email protected]
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:44:32 +0200


Greg Ward wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> You must have missed the caveat in the Radiance reference manual 
> relating to instances, which specifically states that light sources do 
> not work within instances.

btw:
secondary light sources don't work in instances neither : Mirror 
surfaces in instances won't generate secondaries for light sources in 
the main octree.
And "mirror" can't be aliased (even in the main octree).
-Peter

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