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- > I encountered another problem with the object inside of the sphere.
- > I
- > used 2 point polys to model the bristles of a broom. It looked
- > excellent without traced refraction on the sphere. Tracing
- > refraction
- > caused the bristles to dissappear entirely. I haven't read about the
- > inability of Lightwave to deal with points and 2 point polys inside
- > of transparent refracted objects.
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- Raytracing is a volumetric system and therefore is unable to detect one and
- two-point polygons. Refraction and reflection will not work with these polys.
- I've had the same problem doing lake reflections of the night sky with one-poly
- stars. My solution (which may not help in your case) was to render the sky as
- an image sequence and then map it onto a plane to be reflected.
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- Alan Chan
- Graphics/Animation Design
- Vision Digital
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