[Radiance-general] rvu: too many modifiers in ambient list

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Lars,

It's not total number of characters, but list length.  The fewest I  
ever allowed was 128, I think, so something else must be amiss with  
your version, or the way you're using it.

-G

> From: Lars O. Grobe <grobe at gmx.net>
> Date: July 8, 2005 6:59:53 AM PDT
>
> Hi Greg!
>
>> I'm not sure what the limit is in the official release, as this is  
>> something I changed recently, but it's 512 if the latest head.
>>
>
> Is this the number of modifiers or the total string length? If it's  
> the first, there must have been a real change, cause I could  
> exclude around 6 or seven, not more in my old release (which is  
> something after 3.6).
>
>
>>   If you'd like to change it, you can either edit AMBLLEN in src/ 
>> rt/ray.h or set a -DAMBLLEN=1024 (or whatever) in your  
>> optimization flags in rmake and recompile.
>>
>
> I'll take a look at this and compile a new head this week-end.
>
> Thank you, have a nice week-end, Lars.
>