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- Brad Grace (bradx@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : >> I was wondering how to make Lightwave refract the light through
- : >>clear objects and have it cast the light accordingly, like a lens. I
- : >>cannot seem to make it do that. I can make it refract the rays for the
- : >>image, but the casted shadows don't respond that way.
- : >
- : >It won't do it. In fact, I don't know of any retail package that will.
- : >(Though, no doubt someone out there has.)
- : >
- : Does'nt Real3d do that, it sure looks like it.
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- No, ray tracers trace rays from the eyepoint to the light source not the
- other way round.
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- Real does provide soft edge ray-traced shadows however. This does increase
- rendering time.
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- David
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