Quote - Oh, and one more thing, for the record...

Quote - Also, my main light is neither a normal light, nor a specular only light. It is in-between. Look at its shader. The Diffuse_Color is RGB 96, not 255, nor 0. Clever? Eh? Eh?

Yes I invented it. What shall we call this sort of light?

Sorry for not participating - I've been overly busy with work. Still am, but I need to have fun, too, so here I am.

I'm sure that's a tongue-in-cheek claim. I've been using this type of main light since my early IDL testing days, implemented my own way... see screenshot. :O)

Sort of tongue-in-cheek, yes. If we accept that invent implies "discovered or devised for the first time, ever", then I have no idea who invented it. On the other hand, if invent implies "publicly revealed a working solution for the first time", then I think I did invent it.

It's quite possible that a technique can be discovered by multiple people independently, and so it's fair to say you invented it, too. It would have been more accurate for me to say that I'd not seen anybody write about this technique and I came up with it for use in this context on my own, as opposed to being told about it.

Regardless, the important thing is we're using it and we know why!

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