Does radiosity produce its own shadows?
• Help! My computer takes forever to render a radiosity map! • Is AM radiosity *true* radiosity? • Is radiosity working? • Can anyone explain what radiosity is and how to use it? • I don’t believe I have heard of anyone getting it to work. • When I attempt to calc the radiosity, it continues until I kill the process. • I usually let mine go for 5 minutes before I stop casting rays. • Are you saying it only works at the model level? • I would have at least thought bouncing off the floor was enough — hrumph! • Okay, my last stab at it — I attempted a typical test for radiosity. • I did notice that AM doesn’t let you use the same rmp filename for subsequent calcs. Does radiosity produce its own shadows? I have noticed that when A:M makes a shadow, it is a perfect outline of the body, but in real life, shadows arent rigid like that, its soft (somewhat blends into the unshaded color). Radiosity, if left to calculate long enough, will indeed create its own shadows. However, a more flexible
