> Quote - you know what i found out today? > > that lux lights when rendered are not anit-aliased. they look bad when they dont have glow on. > > what were they thinking at luxrender?

I think it is a bug introduced in 0.7. I've seen earlier renders looking directly at the sun and it is beautiful. There seems to be a hard black edge around any light source, whether it is a mesh or anything else.

I was just experimenting with the environment camera and got what you see above.

But on the lux website there is this image (the rightmost) looking directly at the sun. No problem there.

Note: The environment camera can be used to generate equirectangular images - the kind we use on my environment sphere. I wrote a complicated Python shader to generate infinite clouds but it never looked good in Poser. When I get past this exporter and can work on the C++ code of Lux, I'll implement 3D clouds in LuxRender and then we can make all the sky images we want.

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