Michaelab opened this issue on May 16, 2011 ยท 135 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 19 May 2011 at 2:04 PM
The sun light shines through the windows and shows white on the floor. That is direct illumination - light source/surface/camera.
The reflections of blue are of the sky outside the room. We are looking out the windows at a different angle than the reflected light, so we see trees directly, and sky indirectly. Since I wanted this to be more of a rough finish stone, the reflection is blurry and weak. It's so weak that reflections of darker things in the room (much darker than the sky) are unnoticed. But they are there.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)