Re: Announcing shadow rendering feature

[Jose' C. <cru...@ce...>]

> Description
>
> The Quesa OpenGL renderer now has an option to render shadows.   It
> produces sharp-edged shadows from any directional, spot, or point =20
> light
> that has its cast-shadows flag set to kQ3True.  It respects the
> casts-shadows style but not the receive-shadows style.  Translucent
> objects do not cast shadows, nor do lines or points.
>


Great News!!!


> It is not intended to work with orthographic cameras.

in that case, it fails or just is ignored?

>
>   One case where it fails is the Windows software renderer.

So it's not suitable for printing... or there is a way to render on =20
the GPU for printing?


>
>
> Warnings
>
> The algorithm sets the "yon" value of your camera range to =20
> infinity.  To
> prevent surprises, it would be a good idea to set "yon" to infinity
> yourself. While it is true that you get the best depth resolution when
> hither is as large as possible and yon is as small as possible, it is
> much more important to make hither as large as possible.

doesn't it restore the yon after the loop? so I've to restore it when =20=

switching renderers... one of mine works better with an small range...



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