Also note that in the Effects tool you can turn on interactive shadows, so you can see where the shadows will be when you raytrace. - Greg On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Walter Novak wrote:

Hi Elaine,

I agree that some colors are shinier than others. Also, my brightness was not zero, but was the default of 1. I think however, I have tracked the issue down to the position of my lights. I had them pretty straight on and resetting this position gives the pov-ray shininess I was expecting.

Thank you, Wally

On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:

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Hi Wally, on to problem #2.

I was unable to reproduce this problem. Are you sure that the "brightness" is >0? If brightness is zero, there are no highlights. Below are two images, the top with shininess 128 and brightness 10, the bottom with shininess 128 and brightness 0. Actually now that I look at it carefully, the bottom one confuses me because the cyan things are still shiny, so I'm cc-ing the others (Greg, any explanation??). The other colors in the bottom image are non-shiny as expected, however!

Best, Elaine

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Walter R.P. Novak, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Rosenstiel Basic Medical Research Center Brandeis University 415 South St. MS 029 Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: (781) 736-4944 Fax: (781) 736-2405

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